Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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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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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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Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.
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Yeah and it's over before you know it It all goes by so fast Yeah the bad nights take forever And the good nights don't ever seem to last...
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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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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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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 stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.
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Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
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I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times...
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
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Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
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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 think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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I got my own way of praying.
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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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A rebel without a clue.
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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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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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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.