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.
TOM PETTYI’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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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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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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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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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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I got my own way of praying.
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When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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