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 PETTYI have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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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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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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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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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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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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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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