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" If you're not getting older, you're dead. "
Tom Petty
Getting
Dead
Getting Older
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" I don't eat fish and chicken and all that. But I will have some eggs. So I'm not technically a vegan. But I eat pretty sensibly, and before a tour, I will usually work out a lot. I'll get a trainer, or I have a guy I've known a long time. "
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Eat
Work
Time
" I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does. "
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" I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change. "
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Music
" Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock,' which became a sort of umbrella term for anything with a guitar in it. Like hair bands. How could we possibly believe that? It's just gotten downright silly, to the point where now it's sort of become like professional wrestling. "
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" Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success. "
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" Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs. "
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Live
Work
Think
" I would never put my songs in a commercial. "
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Put
Songs
Would
" When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've got to know your audience. It's kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. You're obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don't think that's all you have to do. "
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Think
Hope
Know
" I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality. "
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Authority
Problem
Time
" Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had. "
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Giving Up
Giving
Sometimes
" My hours get kinda backwards. Most of the time, we're basing out of one town, flying out, doing the show, then flying back. And it's a pace that no one would believe, really. Unless you've done it, you really can't understand what it is. And if you're not really experienced and know how to do it, you will fall. "
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Time
You
Know
" An average show is two hours. And that's usually right up to the curfew or the union triple time. I always feel like I could have played a little longer or something, but it's hard for me to pay attention to anything for longer than that. "
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Right
Time
Always
" I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing. "
Tom Petty
Quit
Think
Capable
" I love doing my 'Buried Treasure' show. "
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Love
Treasure
Buried
" There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and you can't wait to share it with people; you can't wait to record it. "
Tom Petty
You
Feeling
Great
" 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. "
Tom Petty
Need
You
Team
" It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music. "
Tom Petty
Beautiful
Easy
Fame
" When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics down as a song was playing, and we'd assign each person a verse, you know: 'I'm going to do the first one. You go for the second one.' And then sometimes you'd wait an hour for it to come on again so you could finish it up. "
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Song
Finish
Car
" The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it. "
Tom Petty
Car
Yourself
Energy
" TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health. "
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You
Think
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" When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering. "
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Myself
Blues
Wolf
" I think, in America, for a long time you had groups that wanted to be stars more than they wanted to make music. "
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Music
Think
Time
" It's kind of a lonely work, because you just have to keep your pole in the water. I always had a little routine of going into whatever room I was using at the time to write in and just staying in there till I felt like I got a bite. "
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Routine
Time
Work
" 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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Funny
People
Internet
" A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song. "
Tom Petty
Head
Good
You
" We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted. "
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Bad
Think
Some People
" I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer. "
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Think
You
" 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. "
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Look
Conversation
Uncle
" When you get on the back side of your 60s, most people aren't working. "
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Side
People
" I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily. "
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Guy
Friends