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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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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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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I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
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If you don't run, you rust.
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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
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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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I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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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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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again...
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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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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.
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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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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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 ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times...
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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.