I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
TOM PETTYWhat I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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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.
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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.
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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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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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I got my own way of praying.
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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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The waiting is the hardest part.
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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 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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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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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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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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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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You believe what you want to believe.
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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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