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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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Quicker
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Move
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Dies
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She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.
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Whatever you're looking for, don't come around here no more.
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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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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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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 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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Let's get to the point Let's roll another joint
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Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
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If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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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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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
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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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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.
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