Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
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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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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 have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.
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I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new work, we have Yeats and Shakespeare presenting new work. It's that level.
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There's a freeway running through the yard.
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I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
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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.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.
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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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Just wondering, waiting, worrying about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.