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If you're not getting older, you're dead.

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Tom Petty
Age: 66 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 20
Died: 2017
Died: October 2
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gainesville
Florida
Thomas Earl Petty
Charlie T. Wilbury
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Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
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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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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.
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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
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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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He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?
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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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Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.
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Whatever you're looking for, don't come around here no more.
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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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Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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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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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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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
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I'm not any happier anywhere than when I'm in the studio. I'm over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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