I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
TOM PETTYI’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.
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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’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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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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I’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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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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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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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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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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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 have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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