It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
BOB SEGERMy 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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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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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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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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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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There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
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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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One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
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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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I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
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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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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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