I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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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The waiting is the hardest part.
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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 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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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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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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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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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 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 got my own way of praying.
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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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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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