I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
TOM PETTYI have never been comfortable being the front man.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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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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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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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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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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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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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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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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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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