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.
TOM PETTYI 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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A rebel without a clue.
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We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
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I got my own way of praying.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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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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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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