Tom Petty Quotes
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If you don't run, you rust.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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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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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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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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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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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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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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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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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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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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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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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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Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
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I got my own way of praying.
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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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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.