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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.

Tom Petty

I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
TOM PETTY

Alone Band Hands Myself Respect Treat Uncomfortable
Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
TOM PETTY

Born Children Hurricane Lost
I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
TOM PETTY

Cool Light Myself Problem
I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
TOM PETTY

Feeling Money Myself
I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
TOM PETTY

Guitar Ideas Instrument Myself Play
Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
TOM PETTY

Dreams Leadership Mystery Work
If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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Myself Play Work
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.
TOM PETTY

Hug Kind Love Man Yourself
Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
TOM PETTY

Lose Luck Time
Some 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.
TOM PETTY

Day Fade Myself Rock
So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
TOM PETTY

God Known Myself Start
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.
TOM PETTY

Decision Marriage Myself Worth
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
TOM PETTY

Diamond King Money Sound
I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
TOM PETTY

Better Guitar Myself Practice Sing Thinking
I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
TOM PETTY

Incredible Lazy Myself
The waiting is the hardest part.
TOM PETTY

Hard One Liner Patience

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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