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.
TOM PETTYIf you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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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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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’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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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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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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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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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 had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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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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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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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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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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