If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
TOM PETTYGonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It’s hard to find a friend. It’s hard to find a friend.
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I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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