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.
TOM PETTYOh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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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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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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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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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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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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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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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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I got my own way of praying.
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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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