I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
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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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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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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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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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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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’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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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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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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