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A rebel without a clue.

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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Entertainment
Media
Art
Without
Clue
Rebel

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That's stupid. You couldn't pay me to go. I'm not oversimplifying it. That's what's going on. I don't think it would be any fun without the drugs. It's a drug party.
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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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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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I've always had a great love for the blues.
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She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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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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He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.
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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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