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 PETTYI had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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I’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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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You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.
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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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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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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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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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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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