Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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More Tom Petty Quotes
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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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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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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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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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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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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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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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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 have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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I got my own way of praying.
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I’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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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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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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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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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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