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"I read the other day that video games are taking 15 billion dollars directly our of the record business. As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather put seven dollars' worth of quarters into a Pac-Man machine than into some dip-shit album."

- Tom Petty

Did You Know...

...that Tom Petty wrote a song called "Reptiles" about "what scumsuckers lawyers are"?

...that Tom Petty told his father that he'd be a millionaire by the time he was 35?

...that Bob Dylan and Tom Petty once showed up to a press conference wearing ridiculous make-up?

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"Tom Petty is a particularly American story."

- Peter Bogdanovich