Tom Petty Quotes - Page 6

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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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• He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

  Tom Petty

  Acceptance, Lennon, Wanted

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• Whatever you're looking for, don't come around here no more.

  Tom Petty

  Song: Don't Come Around Here No More

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• We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.

  Tom Petty

  Boys, Sight, Boy Scout

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• She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Media, Age

  Song: All The Wrong Reasons

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Integrity, Real, Rocks

  "Tom Petty: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. October 2, 2017.

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• It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

  Tom Petty

  Work, Useless, Seems

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• I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.

  Tom Petty

  Successful, Records, Want

  Source: ffanzeen.blogspot.com

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• There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Song: Dreamville, Album: The Last DJ

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Effortless

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• If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.

  Tom Petty

  People, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

  Tom Petty

  Tattoo, Education, School

  Song: Into the Great Wide Open

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• The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

  Tom Petty

  Men, Common, Realms

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

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• The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

  Tom Petty

  Looks, Care, Tvs

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

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• Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.

  Tom Petty

  Real, Men, Magic

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• My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.

  Tom Petty

  Family, Three, Records

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Play, Worry, Way

  "Tom Petty Talks Super Bowl, 'Long-Overdue Heartbreakers Record'". www.rollingstone.com. December 4, 2007.

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• Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.

  Tom Petty

  Religious, Home, Mean

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• I can't crawl any further. You never crawled for me.

  Tom Petty

  Low Self Esteem, I Can

  Song: You're Gonna Get It!

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• I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.

  Tom Petty

  Tired, Careers, Hands

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

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• Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

  Tom Petty

  Baby, Rain, Politics

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• Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.

  Tom Petty

  Girl, Art, Media

  Song: Joe, Album: The Last DJ

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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.

  Tom Petty

  Beer, Rock And Roll, Magic

  Song: Money Becomes King, Album: The Last DJ

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• He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.

  Tom Petty

  Philosophy, Needs, Need A Change

  Song: The Last DJ

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• Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Media, Way

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