Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
TOM PETTYI had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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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.
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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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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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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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 ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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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 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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I got my own way of praying.
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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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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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