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.
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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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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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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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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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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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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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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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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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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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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