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.
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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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I’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
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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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If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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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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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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I got my own way of praying.
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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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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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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’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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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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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’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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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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If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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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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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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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 should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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