Tom Petty Quotes
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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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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.
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I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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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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Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.
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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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There's a freeway running through the yard.
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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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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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Just wondering, waiting, worrying about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.
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I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.
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Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
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I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.