Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
TOM PETTYYou 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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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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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
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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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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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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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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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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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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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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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You spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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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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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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What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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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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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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