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Whatever you're looking for, don't come around here no more.

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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.
Come
Looking
Whatever
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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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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads.
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Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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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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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. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.
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Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.
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What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
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When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.
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I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel's remedy.
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