I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
TOM PETTYThat’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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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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.
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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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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.
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You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
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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’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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I got my own way of praying.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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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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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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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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