When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
TOM PETTYI always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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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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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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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 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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That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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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’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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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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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
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You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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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 don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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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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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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