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.
TOM PETTYI 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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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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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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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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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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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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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’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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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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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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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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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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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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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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You believe what you want to believe.
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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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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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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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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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