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We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.

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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Dies
Moving
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Catalog
Quicker
Entertainment
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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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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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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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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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.
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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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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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You believe what you want to believe
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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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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
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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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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.
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