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.
TOM PETTYIn a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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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 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.
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I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
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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 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’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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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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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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I’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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