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.
TOM PETTYLast dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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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’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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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.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
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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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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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