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.
TOM PETTYI’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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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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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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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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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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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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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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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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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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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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