Tom Petty Quotes
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He (George Harrison) told me he really, really admired John Lennon. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?
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The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.
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She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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I'm tired of screwing up. I'm tired of being down. I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of bein' down.
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That's stupid. You couldn't pay me to go. I'm not oversimplifying it. That's what's going on. I don't think it would be any fun without the drugs. It's a drug party.
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I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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It’s very uncomfortable to hear them used when I don’t agree with what’s being said. But I recognize that those songs have entered into a bigger life, a life all their own. They belong to the audience. How they’re used isn’t always something I can control.
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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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I can't crawl any further. You never crawled for me.
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I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
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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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You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
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I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.
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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.
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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock 'n' roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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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.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.
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There's a freeway running through the yard.
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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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If you don't run, you rust.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.