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.
TOM PETTYGeorge Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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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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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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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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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.
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You 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.
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I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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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 would never put my songs in a commercial.
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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 like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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