Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
TOM PETTYLord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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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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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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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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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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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I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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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 love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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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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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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I got my own way of praying.
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I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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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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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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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 think it’s important to always offer something new.
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