There’s a freeway running through the yard.
TOM PETTYYou 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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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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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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I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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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 would never put my songs in a commercial.
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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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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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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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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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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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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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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
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