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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

Tom Petty

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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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Refugee
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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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Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads.
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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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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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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'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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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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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'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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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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She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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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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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.
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I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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