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.
TOM PETTYI’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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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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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’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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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 have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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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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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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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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