I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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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’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock ‘n’ roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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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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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 the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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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 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’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 remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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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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You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
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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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