Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
BOB SEGERShe had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I’m old fashion, say I’m over the hill. Today’s music ain’t got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.
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I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.
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When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That’s the challenge.
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Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth’s soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.
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I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
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And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn’t until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.
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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
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Stood alone on a mountain top, starin’ out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’ and my soul began to rise.
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Every now and then you’ll nail one that’s really, really special. And that’s what you live for.
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I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I’m playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.
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Tell them we’ll be dancing, dancing ’til we drop, it’s time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.
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Yeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.
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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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I’ve never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They’ve been really good by me.
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My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
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One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
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They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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Make a destination of the greater truth.
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I write a lot of songs people don’t hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish ’em all. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.
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I want to be sure I can deliver what people expect to hear. I just don’t know if I can physically do it. Or if I should.
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I’m older now but still running against the wind
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I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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