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'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.
Tom Petty
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Tom Petty
Age: 66 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 20
Died: 2017
Died: October 2
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Gainesville
Florida
Thomas Earl Petty
Charlie T. Wilbury
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.
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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.
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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past
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It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.
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I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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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.
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Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
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A rebel without a clue.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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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God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.
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I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.
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And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.
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Yeah and it's over before you know it It all goes by so fast Yeah the bad nights take forever And the good nights don't ever seem to last
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If you're not getting older, you're dead.
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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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