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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
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Whatever
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We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.
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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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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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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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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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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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I've always had a great love for the blues.
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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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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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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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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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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It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.
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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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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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