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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

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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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Fascinated
History
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Love

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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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I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel's remedy.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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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 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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I've always had a great love for the blues.
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If you don't run, you rust.
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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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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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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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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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