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Tom Petty Biography

Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. He was the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, formed in 1976. He previously led the band Mudcrutch. He was also a co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys.

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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.

Ahead, Baby, Feet, Knowing, Lying, Moving

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.

Jobs, Life, Paper, Thing, Til, Work

Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.

Keep, Littles, Lucky, Pride

I got my own way of praying.

Praying, Religion, Religious, Way

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

Art, Moving, Media, Quicker, Catalog, Move

I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.

Fun, Know, Mean, Sense, Thinking, Weird

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

Ache, Becomes, Different, Important, Older, Pain

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.

Fun, Having, Having Fun, Music Is, Playing

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.

Feelings, Happier, Keeps, Moon, Purpose, Studio

How 'bout a cheer for all those bad girls? And all those boys that play that rock and roll? They love it like you love Jesus, It does the same thing to their souls.

Bout, Cheer, Girl, Girls, Jesus, Same

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

Affordable, Common, Keeps, Man, Men, Realms

There's a freeway running through the yard.

Freeway, Reality, Running, Yard, Yards

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.

Long, Making, Mean, Party, Record, Time

When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

Forever, Generation, Hate, Kill, War

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.

Art, Boys, Media, Mediocrity, Upstairs

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?

Abandon, Inspirational, Kicked, Somehow, Tell, Want

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

Guitar, Inspirational, Matter, Play

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Attitude, Good, Rich, Self Esteem, Thinking

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

Begins, Ends, Horizon, Intention, Sky

Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time - starting with the artist - to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name.

Artist, Greed, Know, Names, Thinking

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