I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
TOM PETTYI should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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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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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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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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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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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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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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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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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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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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You believe what you want to believe.
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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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