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
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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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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I’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
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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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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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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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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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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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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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