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Well I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down — Tom Petty

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work. — Tom Petty

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. — Tom Petty

I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing. — Tom Petty

On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel. — Bryan Hayes

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. — Tom Petty

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane. — Tom Petty

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success. — Tom Petty

I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it. — Tom Petty

I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck. — Tom Petty

Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real. — Tom Petty

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions. — Tom Petty

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does. — Tom Petty

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it. — Tom Petty

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. — Nick Carter

Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl. — Tom Petty

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time. — Tom Petty

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times — Tom Petty

It's like Tom Waits said," Petty remarks. "'I'm an artist, but I'm still in show business. — Warren Zanes

Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed. — Tom Petty

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television. — Tom Petty

You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world. — Tom Petty

I can't crawl any further. You never crawled for me. — Tom Petty

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. — Tom Petty

In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down ... — Tom Petty

He don't wanna change, what don't need to change. — Tom Petty

We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end. — Tom Petty

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy. — Tom Petty

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated. — Tom Petty

I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar. — Tom Petty

Some grow young, some grow cold ... — Tom Petty

Running down a dream ... working on a mystery ... going wherever it leads ... — Tom Petty

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. — Tom Petty

Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo. — Tom Petty

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter. — Benmont Tench

Whatever you're looking for, don't come around here no more. — Tom Petty

Most things I worry about never happen anyway. — Tom Petty

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now. — Tom Petty

You believe what you want to believe — Tom Petty

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend. — Tom Petty

I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway. — Tom Petty

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy. — Tom Petty

I'm tired of screwing up. I'm tired of being down. I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of bein' down. — Tom Petty

You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free — Tom Petty

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff. — Tom Petty

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person. — Tom Petty

I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites. — Andrew Shue

I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it. — Tom Petty

I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them. — Tom Petty

The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time. — Tom Petty

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn. — Tom Petty

At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow. — Tom Petty

I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight. — Tom Petty

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king. — Tom Petty

If you're not getting older, you're dead. — Tom Petty

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. — Tom Petty

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily. — Tom Petty

Last dance with Mary Jane
One more time to kill the pain
I feel summer creepin' in and I'm
Tired of this town again — Tom Petty

Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me. — Tom Petty

I would never put my songs in a commercial. — Tom Petty

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying. — Tom Petty

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed. — Tom Petty

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale. — Tom Petty

I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real. — Tom Petty

I'll stand my ground and I won't back down... — Tom Petty

Yeah, the world would swing if I were king.
Can I help it if I still dream time to time? — Tom Petty

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun. — Tom Petty

Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you. — Tom Petty

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown. — Tom Petty

The waiting is the hardest part. — Tom Petty

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV. — Tom Petty

You belong somewhere you feel free. — Tom Petty

I have never been comfortable being the front man. — Tom Petty

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. — Tom Petty

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. — Tom Petty

The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part. — Tom Petty

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free. — Tom Petty

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. — Tom Petty

most things I worry 'bout never happen anyway — Tom Petty

Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow. — Tom Petty

Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had. — Tom Petty

'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. — Tom Petty

So I turned on the radio and of course it was a Tom Petty song - is there ever a time you turn on the radio and don't hear a Tom Petty song? - so — Gillian Flynn

There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer. — Tom Petty

Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'. — Tom Petty

There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile. — Tom Petty

She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too. — Tom Petty

If you don't run, you rust. — Tom Petty

I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen. — Bryan Hayes

Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long. — Tom Petty

We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker. — Tom Petty

He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know? — Tom Petty

You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out. — Tom Petty

Yeah and it's over before you know it
It all goes by so fast
Yeah the bad nights take forever
And the good nights don't ever seem to last — Tom Petty

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain. — Tom Petty

Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key. — Tom Petty

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon? — Tom Petty

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. — Tom Petty

Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress. — Tom Petty

If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it. — Tom Petty