I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
TOM PETTYEvery verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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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’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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What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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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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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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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 believe what you want to believe.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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