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 SEGERTake a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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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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Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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Make a destination of the greater truth.
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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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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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Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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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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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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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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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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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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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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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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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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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 really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
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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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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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And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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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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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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