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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.

Bob Seger

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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Stuff Winter Writing
Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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Gone Sun Wind
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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Home Kids Opportunity
He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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Home Philosophy Sea
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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Common Evil Fire
Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
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Remember Sex Wonderful
Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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Tree Victory Watches
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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Long Song Writing
My management tells me, Don’t be optimistic, because it’s the young people’s world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you’re a classic rocker. I don’t know if you’re gonna get the play.
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Optimistic People Play
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
They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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Respect Her Watches
If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you’re not really needed by your family, but you’re there. And my kids like to know I’m there.
BOB SEGER

Golf Kids Play
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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Littles Simple Trying
Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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Expression Knows Wish
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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Flames Lonely Love
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.
BOB SEGER

Song Thinking Writing

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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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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