I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
TOM PETTYThe waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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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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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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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 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 developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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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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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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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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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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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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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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You believe what you want to believe.
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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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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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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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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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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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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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