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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.
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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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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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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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
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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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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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I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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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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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.
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In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.
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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'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.
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She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
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