Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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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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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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Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.
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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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When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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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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The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
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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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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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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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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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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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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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Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.
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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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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 had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
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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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I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no one else really wanted to sing. So I learned how to sing and I wrote the songs, so I tended to get the most attention.
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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 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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Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads.