I’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
TOM PETTYBut not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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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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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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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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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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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.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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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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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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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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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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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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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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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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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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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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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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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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