She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
TOM PETTYMy 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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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’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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You spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
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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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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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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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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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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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A rebel without a clue.
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