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 PETTYIf you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock ‘n’ roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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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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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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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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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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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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