Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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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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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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We think the barns are a statewide significance...
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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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The truth is that if you play on TV there is always a sponsor. There is no way around it. I've already passed on so much money I don't worry about it anymore.
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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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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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It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.
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If you're not getting older, you're dead.
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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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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
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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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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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She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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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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The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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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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Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
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I loved working with Bob Dylan.
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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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There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
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If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.
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He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.