Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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.
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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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It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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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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I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
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I’ve never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They’ve been really good by me.
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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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Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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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 write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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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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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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One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
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And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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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 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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