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.
TOM PETTYGod, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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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 got my own way of praying.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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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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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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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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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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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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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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A rebel without a clue.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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