When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
TOM PETTYSome days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I’ll get you back someday.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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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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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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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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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
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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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That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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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 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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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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