I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
TOM PETTYYou can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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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When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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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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A rebel without a clue.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
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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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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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