If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
TOM PETTYIf I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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I wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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I’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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