And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
BOB SEGERThe 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
-
-
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.
BOB SEGER -
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.
BOB SEGER -
Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can’t. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
BOB SEGER -
It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
BOB SEGER -
Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
BOB SEGER -
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
BOB SEGER -
When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That’s the challenge.
BOB SEGER -
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.
BOB SEGER -
My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
BOB SEGER -
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 -
Tell them we’ll be dancing, dancing ’til we drop, it’s time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.
BOB SEGER -
I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
BOB SEGER -
Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
BOB SEGER -
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.
BOB SEGER -
He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
BOB SEGER