If you don’t run, you rust.
TOM PETTYGod, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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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 always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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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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If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I’ll get you back someday.
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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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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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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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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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