Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
TOM PETTYIt’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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
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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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A rebel without a clue.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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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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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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