Tom Petty Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Pain, Important, Different

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Money, Giving Up, Night

  Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 15, 2010.

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• You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a good idea. Because, you know, it's very shy, too. But once you've got the essence of them, you can work songs and improve them. You see if there's a better word, or a better change.

  Tom Petty

  Song, Essence, Ideas

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• I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times

  Tom Petty

  Good Times, Remember, Petty

  Song: Here Comes My Girl

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• The waiting is the hardest part.

  Tom Petty

  Expression, Waiting, Hardest

  Song: The Waiting

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• Last dance with Mary Jane
  One more time to kill the pain
  I feel summer creepin' in and I'm
  Tired of this town again

  Tom Petty

  Summer, Pain, Tired

  Song: Mary Jane's Last Dance

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• Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.

  Tom Petty

  Girl, Baby, Sex

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• If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

  Tom Petty

  Love, Long, Skins

  Song: Rhino Skin

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Artist, Thinking, Names

  "Tom Petty Is Pissed". Rolling Stone, October 23, 2002.

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• Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

  Tom Petty

  Religious, Children, Religion

  Song: Lost Children, Album: The Last DJ

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Tickets, Robins

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• That's stupid. You couldn't pay me to go. I'm not oversimplifying it. That's what's going on. I don't think it would be any fun without the drugs. It's a drug party.

  Tom Petty

  Fun, Stupid, Party

  "Tom Petty: 'My boy band was The Beatles'". Interview with Edna Gundersen, www.usatoday.com. July 24, 2014.

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• I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going
  to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.

  Tom Petty

  Believe, Responsibility, Kids

  "Tom Petty Is Pissed". Rolling Stone, October 23, 2002.

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Tree, Flying, Musical

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Boys, Media

  Song: The Last DJ, Album: The Last DJ

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• I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

  Tom Petty

  Cheesy, Made, Turned Down

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• Yeah, the world would swing if I were king.
  Can I help it if I still dream time to time?

  Tom Petty

  Dream, Time, Kings

  Song: It's Good To Be King, Album: Wildflowers, 1994

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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.

  Tom Petty

  America, Looks, Corporations

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Successful, Thinking, Luck

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.

  Tom Petty

  Jobs, Done, Hell

  "Tom Petty: A Portrait Of The Artist". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 28, 2005.

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• I've always had a great love for the blues.

  Tom Petty

  Great Love

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

  Tom Petty

  Matter, Eras, Fascinated

  "Someone’s Mojo Is Working: A Conversation With Tom Petty". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2010.

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• Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.

  Tom Petty

  Drunk, Rejection, Honey

  Song: Rebels

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• When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.

  Tom Petty

  Uncles, Real, Glowing

  "Tom Petty: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 2006.

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• I would never put my songs in a commercial.

  Tom Petty

  Song

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