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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!

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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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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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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 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.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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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 developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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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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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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Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.
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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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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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You believe what you want to believe
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I've always had a great love for the blues.
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I always tell my kids, Find something that you love and within that you'll find some job that you can do and you'll always be happy. You'll go to a job that you want to go to.
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He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.
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Buy me a drink, sing me a song take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.
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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 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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If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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