American - Musician | October 2, 1950 -
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.
Tom Petty
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I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
FriendsNew FriendsNewGuyWho
As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.
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If you're not getting older, you're dead.
Getting OlderYouDeadOlderGetting
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.
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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.
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A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.
GoodSongYouHeadLittleOwn
My family wasn't involved in the college. They were more of just your 'white trash' kind of family. And so I have that kind of background, but I always kind of aspired to be something else, and I made a lot of different friends over the years that were passing through.
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Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had.
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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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