Some grow young, some grow cold.
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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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock ‘n’ roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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I got my own way of praying.
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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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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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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 stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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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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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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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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I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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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’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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The waiting is the hardest part.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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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.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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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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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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