I think it’s important to always offer something new.
TOM PETTYIf you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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A rebel without a clue.
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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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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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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 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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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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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 had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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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 would never put my songs in a commercial.
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If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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