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Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads.

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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
Jr.
Wherever
Leads
Mystery
Working
Running
Dream
Going

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I've always had a great love for the blues.
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I'm actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I've had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
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He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.
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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 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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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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If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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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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Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
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I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
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We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.
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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.
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