George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
TOM PETTYI 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
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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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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 had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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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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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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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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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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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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