Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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 ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times...
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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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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.
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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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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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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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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.
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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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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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Nobody's intention is to ever have it fall onto the county...
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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
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We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.
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I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
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They key thing (for trainees) is preparing them to be on their own.