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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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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I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.
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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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There's a freeway running through the yard.
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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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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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Just wondering, waiting, worrying about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.
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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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My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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I got my own way of praying.
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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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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times...
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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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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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Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.
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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.