Tom Petty Quotes (1950-2017)

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About Tom Petty

Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the frontman of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys.

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“My baby is a rock n' roller.”
“Always had more dogs than bones.”
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“Some days are diamonds.
Some days are rocks.”
“I can't save you from yourself, you gotta want it.”
“Take back your insurance,
Baby nothin's guaranteed.”
“People come, people go.
Some grow young, some grow cold.”
“Think of me what you will,
I've got a little space to fill.”
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“Redemption comes to those who wait,
Forgiveness is the key.”
“I'm gonna give her all my soul.
I'm gonna play her Rock 'N' Roll.”
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“Excuse me if I
Have some place in my mind
Where I go time to time.”
“Look deep in the eyes of love
And find out what you were looking for.”
“Now I'm walkin' this street on my own,
but she's with me wherever I go.”
“I saw an angel, I saw my fate.
I can only thank God it was not too late.”
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“And I don't want to mean anything to you,
I don't want to tempt you to be true.”
“I'll be the boy in the corduroy pants.
You be the girl at the high school dance.”
“There was Rock 'N' Roll across the dial.
When I think of her, it makes me smile.”
“I'm learning to fly,
But I ain't got wings.
Coming down
Is the hardest thing.”
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“But if you shoot at everyone you see,
Can't be my friend 'cause you might shoot at me.”
“Oh baby, don't it feel like heaven right now,
Don't it feel like something from a dream.”
“Yeah, the world would swing if I were king.
Can I help it if I still dream time to time?”
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“Good love is hard to find.
You got lucky, babe.
You got lucky, babe, when I found you.”
“It's good to be king and have your own way,
Get a feeling of peace at the end of the day.”
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“And it's hard to say
Who you are these days.
But you run on anyway,
Don't you baby?”
“Well I fought for you;
I fought too hard.
To do it all again babe,
It's gone too far.”
“It just seems so useless to have to work so hard,
And nothin' ever really seems to come from it.”

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Tom Petty on Bone

“Always had more dogs than bones”
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Tom Petty on Mob

“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.”
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Tom Petty on Van Morrison

“A great Irish poet”
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About Tom Petty

Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the frontman of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys.