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.
BOB SEGERSometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can’t. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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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Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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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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I’m just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what’s going to happen tomorrow.
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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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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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Make a destination of the greater truth.
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Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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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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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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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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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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