I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
TOM PETTYI remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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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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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’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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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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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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