Petty has incorporated some pretty great "lines to live by" and statements of reality in his music throughout the years. What is your favorite Petty one liner?

Mine........ There are so many!

"Ain't it funny how a crowd gathers 'round anyone living life without a net..."

Oh tons..I could go on and on

"Don't let it kill you baby, don't let them get to you"

"Even the losers get lucky sometimes"

"You need rhino skin if your gonna begin to make sense of this world"

"You were so cool, back in high school"

"You don't know how it feels to be me"

"You can stand me up at the gates of Hell, but I won't back down"

Well there's enough to be going on with. By the way, that one you quoted, someone on here used to use that as their quote for ages. It's very true. A crowd certainly does rush around when there's something to be seen.

***I'm clean and fairly sober***
***Pasquier Quesnel
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
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"God it's so painful when something that's so close, is still so far out of reach.".

Not only is it one of my faves but I think one of the best lines written in r&r.

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When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

Now he's got, nuthin', head in the oven......

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Long Time Ago, When We Was Fab ~ George Harrison

Or there are so many!

"Life will beat you down, break your heart, steal your crown."

"My load is wide, my street is narrow."

So many indeed. Heres one thats been stuck in my head lately...

"Real love is a mans salvation, the weak ones fall, the strong carry on"

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When Im all alone in the great unknown, I'll remember you

Hey baby, you're a free girl now!

"My sister got lucky, married a yuppie".

"Wouldn't her mom be proud of her now".

"I've got a room at the top of the world tonight."

"She was going to hitchhike to the yellow moon when a cadillac stopped for her".

"She loves horses and America too."

"No more will you walk from the table".

"You have to keep one eye open the further you go"

Crap, all the best ones are taken, lol.

My faves are:

"don't let 'em kill ya babe, don't let 'em get to you..."

"she said, 'I'm never goin' back' ... she said at last 'I'm free!'"

"God it's so painful when somethin's so close, and still so far out of reach"

"she was an American girl... raised on promises"

and of course my sig line.

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"I know worrying is effective because almost nothing I worry about ever happens". ~Will Rogers

Oops, I've changed my sig line, lol.

"If you follow your feelings, and you follow your dreams, you might find the forest, there in the trees."

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"I know worrying is effective because almost nothing I worry about ever happens". ~Will Rogers

"I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings".

"Damn the torpeados" (ok, you have to have been raised by a father who designed the computer systems on the nuclear submarines to really appreciate this one)

"You have to keep one eye open the further you go"

It truly is difficult to think of just one.

"how 'bout a cheer for all those bad girls, and the boys who play that rock 'n roll. They love it like you love Jesus, it does the same thing for thier soul."

"I don't believe the good times are over, I don't believe the thrill is all gone, real love is a mans salvation the weak ones fall the strong carry on."

"We could buy a '62 cadillac, put a Fender amplifier in the back. Drive straight to the heart of America, turn up to ten, let that sucker blast."

My favorite right now is...

"I dont want to hear your whole life story, I just want to take you with me upstairs"



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~Take this chance, take this dream, baby take this heart, deliver me~

Moses started drinking, he got a little rude,
we wound up in the bushes, beat to hell and nude~~About to Give Out

~~throw old spike a bone

"Most things I worry about, never happen anyway"

***I'm clean and fairly sober***
***Argument is the worst form of conversation - Jonathan Swift***

There goes your freedom of choice...there goes the last human voice

"I used to need your love so badly, But I can't live with it!"

"They love it, like you love Jesus! It does the same thing to their souls."


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"You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance
You hang out forever and still miss the dance"


***I'm clean and fairly sober***
***The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back - Abigail Van Buren***

Don't do me like that.
It's wake up time. Rise and shine.
Every body's had to fight to be free.
She's her own protector.

Hey! Little Dropout! How come you pack a rod? Is your mother in a clinic? Has your father got no job?

Even in the silliest of his songs, Tom's got at least a good one liner. Supreme lyricists always hold out for the special twist of the phase.