Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
BOB SEGEROut 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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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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 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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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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I’m older now but still running against the wind
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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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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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It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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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 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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Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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I’d rather make music than tour.
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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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