Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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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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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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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When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.
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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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There's a freeway running through the yard.
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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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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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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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Just wondering, waiting, worrying about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.
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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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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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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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At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.
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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 loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.