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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 Seger

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
BOB SEGER

Book Captains Heroic
He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
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Art Home Night
Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my ’60 Chevy. Workin’ on mysteries without any clues, workin’ on our night moves.
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Moving Mysteries Night Past
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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Fashion Music Rocks Roll Soul
Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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Gone Sun Wind
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
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Family Life Love
When you’re in a relationship, you’re always surrounded by a ring of circumstances… joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.
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Boxing Relationship Wedding
Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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Expression Knows Wish
And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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Bother Miscellaneous Want
They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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Respect Her Watches
I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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Play Summer Winter
Yeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.
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Blessed Healthy Strong
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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Lines Music Playing Singing
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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Recording Tour Two Writing Years
The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I’ve gotta rest it for a night. So it’s the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
BOB SEGER

Boring Neck Night Play Sing Two
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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Done People Table

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.

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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.

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