Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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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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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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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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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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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A rebel without a clue.
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