Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
TOM PETTYIf you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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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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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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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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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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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.
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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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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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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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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.
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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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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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