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I have never been comfortable being the front man.

Tom Petty

We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
TOM PETTY

Bad Grant Record Thinking
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.
TOM PETTY

Communication Healing Life Magic Move Music Myself Reality
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.
TOM PETTY

Drugs Fun Pay Stupidity Thinking
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.
TOM PETTY

Faith Hard Heart Part Yourself
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 PETTY

Cool Light Myself Problem
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.
TOM PETTY

Feeling Happiness Moon Myself Purpose Young
I have never been comfortable being the front man.
TOM PETTY

Comfortable Man Myself
What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
TOM PETTY

Each Other Learning Marriage Yourself
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.
TOM PETTY

Known Lying Move On Myself Time
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.
TOM PETTY

Mindset Myself Thinking
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.
TOM PETTY

Angel Goodness Myself Person Remedy
You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.
TOM PETTY

Boat Feeling Flower Freedom Love Sea Yourself
I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
TOM PETTY

Fly Hard Learning Myself Wings
My 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.
TOM PETTY

Decision Marriage Myself Worth
The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
TOM PETTY

Herself Liquid Naked Poison Time
At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
TOM PETTY

Day End Record Yourself

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