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I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

Tom Petty

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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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Hardest
Wings
Coming
Learning
Thing

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A rebel without a clue.
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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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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
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Let's get to the point Let's roll another joint
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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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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Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
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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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If you don't run, you rust.
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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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