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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.

Bob Seger

He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
BOB SEGER

Art Home Night
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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Book Captains Heroic
Every now and then you’ll nail one that’s really, really special. And that’s what you live for.
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Nails Now Special Then
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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Honesty Looks Wall
I’d rather make music than tour.
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Long Make Music Tour
Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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Expression Knows Wish
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
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Dancer Long Social Taboos
Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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Beautiful Fall Reality
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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Golf Kids Play
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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Friendship Home Past
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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Home Kids Opportunity
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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People Want Should
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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Boring Neck Night Play Sing Two
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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Choices Country Fun
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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Stuff Winter Writing
I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
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Long Sitting Song

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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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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