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.
TOM PETTYI always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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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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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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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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I’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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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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If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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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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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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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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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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I’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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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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