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I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice.
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When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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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.
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At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.
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They key thing (for trainees) is preparing them to be on their own.
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Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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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 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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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.
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Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
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We still go over calls, ... It is hard in plain clothes to jump in because people will ask, 'Who is this guy?'
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My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.
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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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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.
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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.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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Nobody's intention is to ever have it fall onto the county...
Ron Blair Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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I found myself not jumping in (to assist) as often if someone did not have that (corrections) background.
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I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.
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I can't crawl any further. You never crawled for me.
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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 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers