I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
TOM PETTYLast dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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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 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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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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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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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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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.
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