If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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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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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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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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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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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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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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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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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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
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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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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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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 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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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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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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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock ‘n’ roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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