Tom Petty Quotes
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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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Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
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If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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A rebel without a clue.
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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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I got my own way of praying.
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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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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again...
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
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We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.
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I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
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I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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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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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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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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And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.
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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.