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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 Petty

No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
TOM PETTY

Guitar Instrument Learning Play
You spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
TOM PETTY

Come Dance Dreams Forever Life Pain Yourself
If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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Myself Play Work
Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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Drink Long Myself Sing Song Stay
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.
TOM PETTY

Affordable Industry Internet Music Payment Steal Way
You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Feeling Freedom Yourself
Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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Lose Luck Time
But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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Myself Save Self Love
So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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God Known Myself Start
I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
TOM PETTY

Children Happiness Job Love Passion Yourself
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
TOM PETTY

Diamond King Money Sound
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.
TOM PETTY

Audience Money Pay Price Yourself
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.
TOM PETTY

Feeling Happiness Moon Myself Purpose Young
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.
TOM PETTY

Authority Development Myself Personality Problem Time
She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
TOM PETTY

Goodness Horse Relationship Woman
Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
TOM PETTY

Born Children Hurricane Lost

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.

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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.

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