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.
TOM PETTYWhere the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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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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I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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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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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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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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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’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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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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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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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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I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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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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