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’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
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I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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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 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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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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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get 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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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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