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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.
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Whatever
Around
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I'm not any happier anywhere than when I'm in the studio. I'm over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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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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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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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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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
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If you don't run, you rust.
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If you're not getting older, you're dead.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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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 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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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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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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If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.
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Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
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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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