If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
TOM PETTYI remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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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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I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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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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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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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 have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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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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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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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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