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It's good to be king, If just for a while. To be there in velvet, yea to give 'em a smile. It's good to get high, and never comedown. It's good to be king of your own little town. (Tom Petty)
Baby, you've got a heart so big, It could crush this town. But I can't hold out forever. Even walls fall down. View quote
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No more songs tonight, I'm drivin' to the break of day. No more words tonight, We've got enough to throw away. View quote
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I keep waking up all by myself, With a blue jay in my brain. Flappin' his wings, making me sing, it was just about to rain. View quote
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I can't save you from yourself, you gotta want it. View quote
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There's rain on the road And the faithful have gone. In a crowd all alone, Walking 'round in a song. View quote
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Well, they raised that horse to be a jumper He was owned by a mid-west bible thumper. His preacher was a Louisiana drummer. Took all winter, to get through the summer. View quote
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Yeah runnin' down a dream That never would come to me. Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads. I'm runnin' down a dream. View quote
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I felt so good, like anything was possible. I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes. View quote
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If you're not getting older, you're dead. View quote
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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. (Tom Petty)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy. View quote
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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated. View quote
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When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing. View quote
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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. View quote
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The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. View quote
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We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted. (Tom Petty)
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time. View quote
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I would never put my songs in a commercial. View quote
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There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now. View quote
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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. View quote
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