Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
TOM PETTYYou 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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I’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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.
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We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
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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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