When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
BOB SEGERYeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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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It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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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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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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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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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 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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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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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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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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And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.
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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.
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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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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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Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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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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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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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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Yeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.
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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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Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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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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Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
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