Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
TOM PETTYWe 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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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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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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The 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 always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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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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You spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
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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’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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You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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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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