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 PETTYIf I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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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’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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