Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
TOM PETTYI’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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A rebel without a clue.
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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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’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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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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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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 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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I’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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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’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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