Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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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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In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
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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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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 think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
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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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