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1. "It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up." ~ Tom Petty

2. "Well I won't back downNo I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back down" ~ Tom Petty

3. "Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time." ~ Tom Petty

4. "I had to learn a new way of playing. I had to practice a lot, and just find ways around the limitations. So it was a bad idea to break my hand.You said you were doing a lot of cocaine. Did that affect your songwriting?No. I think it affected my breaking my hand." ~ Tom Petty

5. "So I started out for God knows where.I guess I'll know when I get there." ~ Tom Petty

6. "You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again." ~ Tom Petty

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

8. "If you're not getting older, you're dead." ~ Tom Petty

9. "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

10. "Most things I worry about never happen anyway." ~ Tom Petty

11. "I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy." ~ Tom Petty

12. "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

13. "I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality." ~ Tom Petty

14. "It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music." ~ Tom Petty

15. "I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily." ~ Tom Petty

16. "TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health." ~ Tom Petty

17. "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

18. "I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated." ~ Tom Petty

19. "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

20. "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

21. "You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at seaYou belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free" ~ Tom Petty

22. "Yeah and it's over before you know itIt all goes by so fastYeah the bad nights take foreverAnd the good nights don't ever seem to last" ~ Tom Petty

23. "How 'bout a cheer for all those bad girls?And all those boys that play that rock and roll?They love it like you love Jesus,It does the same thing to their souls." ~ Tom Petty

24. "People come, people goSome grow young, some grow coldI woke up in betweenA memory and a dreamSo let's get to the point, let's roll another jointLet's head on down the roadThere's somewhere I gotta goAnd you don't know how it feelsYou don't know how it feels to be me" ~ Tom Petty

25. "I'll stand my ground and I won't back down..." ~ Tom Petty

26. "And I'm a bad boy 'cause I don't even miss her. I'm a bad boy for breakin her heart" ~ Tom Petty

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