As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
TOM PETTYEvery verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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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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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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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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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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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.”
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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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.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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