Tom Petty Quotes
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I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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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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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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A rebel without a clue.
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I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
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The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.
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There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.
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It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
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Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday.
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I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.
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Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.
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You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free...
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I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.
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Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
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Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.
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There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.
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If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.