Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
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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 got my own way of praying.
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Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down
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It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.
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At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.
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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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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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My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.
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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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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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I found myself not jumping in (to assist) as often if someone did not have that (corrections) background.
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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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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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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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I can't crawl any further. You never crawled for me.
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Nobody's intention is to ever have it fall onto the county...
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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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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Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.
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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'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.