You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it’s really fun to go there. But they’re not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It’s too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it’s distracting to me.
BOB SEGERYou go to LA, or you go to New York, and it’s really fun to go there. But they’re not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It’s too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it’s distracting to me.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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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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Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
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I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
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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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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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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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I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
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I’m just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what’s going to happen tomorrow.
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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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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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Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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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 like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that’s why I’ve never done a session where I don’t sing live.
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Make a destination of the greater truth.
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