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A rebel without a clue.

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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Rebel
Entertainment
Media
Art
Without
Clue

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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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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.
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She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.
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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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God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.
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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'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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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 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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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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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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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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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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If you're not getting older, you're dead.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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Let's get to the point Let's roll another joint
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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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Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads.
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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'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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