If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
TOM PETTYI always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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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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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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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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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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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’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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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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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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