If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
TOM PETTYThe 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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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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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I’ll get you back someday.
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I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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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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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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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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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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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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