I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
TOM PETTYWe could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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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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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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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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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 have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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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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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.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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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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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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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’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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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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I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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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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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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