I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
BOB SEGERI’d rather make music than tour.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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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 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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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’d rather make music than tour.
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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 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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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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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 went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
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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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Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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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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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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She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
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It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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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 was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
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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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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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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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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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Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
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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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