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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

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.
BOB SEGER

Boring Neck Night Play Sing Two
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.
BOB SEGER

Recording Tour Two Writing Years
I’m older now but still running against the wind
BOB SEGER

Running Stills Wind
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
BOB SEGER

Family Life Love
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.
BOB SEGER

Optimistic People Play
When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That’s the challenge.
BOB SEGER

Challenges Trying Writing
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

Choices Country Fun
And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
BOB SEGER

Bother Miscellaneous Want
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.
BOB SEGER

Moving Mysteries Night Past
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
BOB SEGER

Book Captains Heroic
Yeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.
BOB SEGER

Blessed Healthy Strong
Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
BOB SEGER

Tree Victory Watches
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
BOB SEGER

Stuff Winter Writing
Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
BOB SEGER

High Junior Juniors Way
Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
BOB SEGER

Gone Sun Wind
Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
BOB SEGER

Fragmented Radio Unbelievable

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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