We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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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I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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 think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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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 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 think it’s important to always offer something new.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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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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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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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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In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
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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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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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