If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
TOM PETTYI always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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I wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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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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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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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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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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