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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'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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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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There's a freeway running through the yard.
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It's amazing what's been done already on a shoestring budget...
Ron Blair Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the people whose music I suit are by and large people that I'm a fan of.
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We think the barns are a statewide significance...
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I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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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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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're living in the past...
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.
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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.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.
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They key thing (for trainees) is preparing them to be on their own.
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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.
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Just wondering, waiting, worrying about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
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.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers