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Tom Petty

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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


#bravery

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.


— Tom Petty


#music

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.


— Tom Petty


#inspirational

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


#feel #good #good attitude #i #life

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.


— Tom Petty


#anyway #happen #i #most #never

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.


— Tom Petty


#been #done #granted #i #i think

It's better to burn out, then to fade away.


— Tom Petty


#better #burn #fade #out #then

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


#find #go #happy #happy person #love

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


#authority #became #being #developed #i

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


— Tom Petty


#concerned #far #hopefully #i #like






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In 1994 You Got Lucky a Tom Petty tribute album featuring such bands as Everclear and Silkworm was released. Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has also used a number of Rickenbacker guitars from 1979 onward notably a 1965 Rose Morris 1993 and 1987 reissue of the Rose Morris 1997 a 1967 360/12 and 1989 660/12TP.

In 2002 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T.

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