You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
TOM PETTYIf you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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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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I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
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I’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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