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 SEGERI can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can’t. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
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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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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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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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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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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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Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
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It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
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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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And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can’t help smiling, it’s you.
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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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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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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.
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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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