Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
TOM PETTYMusic 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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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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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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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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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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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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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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