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.
TOM PETTYThe poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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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 is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I got my own way of praying.
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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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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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You spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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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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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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