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If you don't run, you rust.

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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.
Rust
Running

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Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads.
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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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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
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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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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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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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