Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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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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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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I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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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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My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.
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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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At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.
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I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times...
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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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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
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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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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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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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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 was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice.
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We think the barns are a statewide significance...
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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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Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
