It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
BOB SEGERI 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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I’m older now but still running against the wind
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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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Every now and then you’ll nail one that’s really, really special. And that’s what you live for.
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Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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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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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 can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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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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One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
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Deep in my soul, I’ve been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I’ve longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I’ll keep searching after today.
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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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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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Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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