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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
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Dream
Going
Wherever
Leads
Mystery
Working
Running

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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again
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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past
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We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.
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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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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.
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If you're not getting older, you're dead.
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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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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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 always tell my kids, Find something that you love and within that you'll find some job that you can do and you'll always be happy. You'll go to a job that you want to go to.
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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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That's stupid. You couldn't pay me to go. I'm not oversimplifying it. That's what's going on. I don't think it would be any fun without the drugs. It's a drug party.
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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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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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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 not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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