292 Quotes by Tom Petty

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    She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.

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

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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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    No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.

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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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    How ’bout a cheer for all those bad girls? And all those boys that play that rock and roll? They love it like you love Jesus, It does the same thing to their souls.

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    Whatever you’re looking for, don’t come around here no more.

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    When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics down as a song was playing, and we'd assign each person a verse, you know: 'I'm going to do the first one. You go for the second one.' And then sometimes you'd wait an hour for it to come on again so you could finish it up.

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    I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they're dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There's no time left to be creative.

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