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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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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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There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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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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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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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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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
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She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.
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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'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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I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
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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 not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
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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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Mike Campbell Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
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 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.
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Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.
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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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I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers