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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• I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

  Tom Petty

  Lazy, Laziness

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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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• A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

  Graham Greene

  Fake People, Distance, Writing

  Graham Greene (1993). “Mornings in the dark: the Graham Greene film reader”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become a person of great or petty character.

  Michael Josephson

  Sex, Character, Opportunity

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• The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

  Confucius

  Positive, Men, Demand

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• Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

  Ben Shapiro

  Government, Long, Care

  "SHAPIRO: Why Socialism Is on the Rise". www.truthrevolt.org. January 8, 2014.

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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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• The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

  Rex Stout

  Opportunity, Satisfaction, Permit

  Rex Stout (2011). “FAMILY AFFAIR”, p.40, Crimeline

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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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• If you're not getting older, you're dead.

  Tom Petty

  Funny Birthday, Funny Happy Birthday, Getting Older

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 15, 2010.

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• Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

  Tom Petty

  Music, Time, Solitude

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• I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.

  Tom Petty

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

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• But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.

  Tom Petty

  Friendship, Baby, Save Me

  Song: Yer So Bad

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• You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.

  Tom Petty

  Evil, Hell, Gates

  Song: I Won't Back Down, Album: Full Moon Fever

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• God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.

  Tom Petty

  Sadness, Painful, Stills

  "The Proud Pain of Tom Petty" by Nicholas Dawidoff, www.newyorker.com. August 4, 2017.

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• Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.

  Tom Petty

  Drunk, Rejection, Honey

  Song: Rebels

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• 'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

  Tom Petty

  Song, Grateful, People

  "Tom Petty: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 2006.

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