I’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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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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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’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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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 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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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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