Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
TOM PETTYYou believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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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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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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It’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.
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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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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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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 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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I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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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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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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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 developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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