Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
TOM PETTYI’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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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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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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A rebel without a clue.
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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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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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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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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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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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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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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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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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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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