Some grow young, some grow cold.
TOM PETTYShe’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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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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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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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.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock ‘n’ roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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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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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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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
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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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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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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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