There’s a freeway running through the yard.
TOM PETTYIt’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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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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A rebel without a clue.
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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.
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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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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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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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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 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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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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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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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