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’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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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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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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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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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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