At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
TOM PETTYAs we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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I’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
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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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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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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 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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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 think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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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’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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