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.
TOM PETTYIn a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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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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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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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 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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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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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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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 don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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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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