Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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If you don't run, you rust.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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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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Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.
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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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My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.
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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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At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.
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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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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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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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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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There's a freeway running through the yard.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.
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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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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 try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
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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 stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.
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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 loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.