I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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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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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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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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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’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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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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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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