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.
BOB SEGERWhen you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
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And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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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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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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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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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 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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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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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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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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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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One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
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I’m older now but still running against the wind
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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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I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
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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 write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
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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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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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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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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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