Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Tom Petty: Cherished the battle

by Angela K. Durden
Technology inventor protecting creator's copyrights. Business writer, novelist, songwriter, and Citizen Journalist.



Billboard writer Gavin Edward said, "All [Tom's] songs feel joyful...not just because The Heartbreakers could play like their amplifiers were on fire, but because Petty cherished the battle more than the victory."

That statement caught my attention because I understand it, and it helped to explain why I've liked their songs. 

Paying dues was never more true than when one thinks of Tom Petty. Especially in anything creative, paying dues is not just one battle. Petty always remembered that dues paying never stops.

Petty's songs and The Heartbreakers' music were their own.
 
They had their sound. Their vibe. 

With lyrics that never preached, never told, but showed us the stories that define the human condition no matter the age in which one lives. 

Inviting us on a journey to go within, examine ourselves as they examined themselves.

Tom Petty. 
Gone just eighteen days shy of beginning his sixty-eighth year.


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