The waiting is the hardest part.
TOM PETTYWhen you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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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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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
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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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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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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.
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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’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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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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