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.
TOM PETTYI’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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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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 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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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
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