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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
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
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Singer-Songwriter
Gainesville
Florida
Thomas Earl Petty
Charlie T. Wilbury
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I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
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Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.
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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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I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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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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Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.
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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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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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I'm not any happier anywhere than when I'm in the studio. I'm over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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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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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
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A rebel without a clue.
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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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