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.
TOM PETTYIt’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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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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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock ‘n’ roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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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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If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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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 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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