But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
TOM PETTYI 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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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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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to 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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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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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’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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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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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 think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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