Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.
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I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.
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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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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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Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.
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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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If you don't run, you rust.
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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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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 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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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 barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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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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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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Just wondering, waiting, worrying about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.
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I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.
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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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There's a freeway running through the yard.
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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
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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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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.