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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.

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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
Jr.
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She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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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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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
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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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Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.
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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'm actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I've had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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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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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again
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