Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
TOM PETTYExcuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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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 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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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
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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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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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You spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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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 had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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