Petty Quotes

• Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

  Tom Petty

  Worry, Songwriting, Happens

  Song: Crawling Back To You, Album: Wildflowers, 1994

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• You belong somewhere you feel free.

  Tom Petty

  Wildflowers, Feels

  Song: Wildflowers, Album: Wildflowers, 1994

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  You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

  Tom Petty

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell

  Song: You And I Will Meet Again

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• Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

  Tom Petty

  Success, Pay, Concerned

  "Tom Petty: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. October 02, 2017.

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Funny Things, People, Way

  "Tom Petty Is Pissed". Rolling Stone interview, October 23, 2002.

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• Even the losers get lucky sometimes!

  Tom Petty

  Lucky, Loser, Sometimes

  Song: Even the Losers

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Believe, Responsibility, Artist

  "10 Things That Piss Off Tom Petty". Interview with David Wild, www.rollingstone.com. November 14, 2002.

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• Yeah and it's over before you know it It all goes by so fast Yeah the bad nights take forever And the good nights don't ever seem to last

  Tom Petty

  Good Night, Forever, Lasts

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Team, Needs, Kind

  "Tom Petty: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. October 2, 2017.

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• I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

  Tom Petty

  Lazy, Laziness

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• Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Reality

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  Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.

  Tom Petty

  Song, Long, Causes

  Song: Mary Jane's Last Dance

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• There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

  Tom Petty

  Integrity, Real, Rocks

  "Tom Petty: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. October 2, 2017.

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• I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

  Tom Petty

  Guy, New Friends

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.

  Tom Petty

  Found You, Lucky, Babe

  Song: You Got Lucky

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• I 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!

  Tom Petty

  Hate, Work Out, Waste

  Interview With Alan Bangs, 1999.

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• Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self, Media, People

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Attitude, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "10 Things That Piss Off Tom Petty". Interview with David Wild, www.rollingstone.com. November 14, 2002.

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Way, Happy Person, Persons

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• Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.

  Tom Petty

  Pride, Lucky, Littles

  Song: Even the Losers

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• I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times

  Tom Petty

  Good Times, Remember, Seems

  Song: Here Comes My Girl

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• When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

  Tom Petty

  Money, Giving Up, Night

  Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 15, 2010.

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• I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.

  Tom Petty

  Real, Remember, One Time

  "Song: "All Mixed Up" ("Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)")". April 21, 1987.

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• So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

  Tom Petty

  God Knows, Knows

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• If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

  Tom Petty

  Night, Play, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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