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Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
Tom Petty
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Tom Petty
Age: 66 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 20
Died: 2017
Died: October 2
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
Gainesville
Florida
Thomas Earl Petty
Charlie T. Wilbury
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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.
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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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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.
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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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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 remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.
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I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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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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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.
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I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.
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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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If you're not getting older, you're dead.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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