I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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 would never put my songs in a commercial.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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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I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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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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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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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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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 have never been comfortable being the front man.
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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