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" I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does. "
Tom Petty
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" I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily. "
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" 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. "
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" I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too. "
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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 been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording. "
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" If you're not getting older, you're dead. "
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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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" As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard. "
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You
Time Goes By
Weed
" In the mid-'60s, AM radio, pop radio, was just this incredible thing that played all kinds of music... You could hear Frank Sinatra right into the Yardbirds. The Beatles into Dean Martin. It was this amazing thing, and I miss it, in a way, because music has become so compartmentalized now, but in those days, it was all right in one spot. "
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Way
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" 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. "
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Head
Good
You
" 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
" 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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Health
You
Start
" I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing. "
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Quit
Think
Capable
" 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
" 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
Night
Giving
Loved
" 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
" 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
" I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer. "
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Singer
Think
You
" 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 don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time. "
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Me
Moment
Know
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Tom Petty
Believe
Now
Hair
" 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. "
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Beautiful
Easy
Fame
" I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. "
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Good
Rich
Think
" Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music. "
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Even
Music
Rock
" 'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear. "
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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. "
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