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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

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
TOM PETTY

God Known Myself Start
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.
TOM PETTY

Bad Grant Record Thinking
I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
TOM PETTY

Hate Hope Investment Understand Wasted Time
I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
TOM PETTY

Better Guitar Myself Practice Sing Thinking
You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
TOM PETTY

Gate Hell Stand Yourself
Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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Dreams Leadership Mystery Work
If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
TOM PETTY

Myself Play Work
I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
TOM PETTY

Love Music Myself Play Tired
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
You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
TOM PETTY

Hell Job Yourself
I got my own way of praying.
TOM PETTY

Myself Prayer Way
And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It’s hard to find a friend. It’s hard to find a friend.
TOM PETTY

Change Finding Friendship Wind
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
TOM PETTY

Finding Happiness Love Person Work Yourself
Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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Beginning Best Horizon Intention Sky
You believe what you want to believe.
TOM PETTY

Believe Yourself
Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
TOM PETTY

Born Children Hurricane Lost
But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
TOM PETTY

Myself Save Self Love
If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
TOM PETTY

Death Old Yourself
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.
TOM PETTY

Known Lying Move On Myself Time
I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
TOM PETTY

Myself Night Tired Worry
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

Fall Life People Start Yourself
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.
TOM PETTY

Drugs Fun Pay Stupidity Thinking
If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
TOM PETTY

Enough Growth Listening Skin Strong Yourself
I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
TOM PETTY

Feeling Money Myself
You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
TOM PETTY

Wings World Yourself
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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Average Celebration Freedom Yourself
It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
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Dedication Easy Fame Hall Life Myself

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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