Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record.
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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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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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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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Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.
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I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.
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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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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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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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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 try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
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We still go over calls, ... It is hard in plain clothes to jump in because people will ask, 'Who is this guy?'
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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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There's a freeway running through the yard.
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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 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 got my own way of praying.
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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'.