I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
TOM PETTYI think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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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I’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
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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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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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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 had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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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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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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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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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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