Tom Petty Quotes
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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.
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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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Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.
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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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Just wondering, waiting, worrying about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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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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There's a freeway running through the yard.
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I got my own way of praying.
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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.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.
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My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.
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At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.
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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...
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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 ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times...
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down