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 PETTYHoney, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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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.
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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.
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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
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I got my own way of praying.
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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 always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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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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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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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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