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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.

Tom Petty

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.
TOM PETTY

Fall Life People Start Yourself
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 PETTY

Bad Grant Record Thinking
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
TOM PETTY

Average Celebration Freedom Yourself
God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
TOM PETTY

Close God Pain Reach
There’s a freeway running through the yard.
TOM PETTY

Freedom Run
I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
TOM PETTY

Artist Believe Herself Responsibility
If you don’t run, you rust.
TOM PETTY

Exercise Move Run Rust Yourself
I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
TOM PETTY

Health Mental Physical Thinking
You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
TOM PETTY

Gate Hell Stand Yourself
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.
TOM PETTY

Communication Healing Life Magic Move Music Myself Reality
How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock ‘n’ roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
TOM PETTY

Boy Love Play Yourself
I’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
TOM PETTY

Myself Night Room World
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.
TOM PETTY

Come Dance Dreams Forever Life Pain Yourself
I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
TOM PETTY

Incredible Lazy Myself
I have never been comfortable being the front man.
TOM PETTY

Comfortable Man Myself
I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
TOM PETTY

Hope Ideal Myself Thinking Weird

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