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.
TOM PETTYI have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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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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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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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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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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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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