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.
TOM PETTYFree 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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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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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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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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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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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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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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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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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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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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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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