I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
TOM PETTYI 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!
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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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 believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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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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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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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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