Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
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She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.
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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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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
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A rebel without a clue.
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I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.
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There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.
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Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday.
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I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.
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There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.
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I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.
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Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.
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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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Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time - starting with the artist - to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name.
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I always tell my kids, "Find something that you love and within that you'll find some job that you can do and you'll always be happy. You'll go to a job that you want to go to."
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Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads.