I’d rather make music than tour.
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
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I’m older now but still running against the wind
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When you’re in a relationship, you’re always surrounded by a ring of circumstances… joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.
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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 write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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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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Make a destination of the greater truth.
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There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
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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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I write a lot of songs people don’t hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish ’em all. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.
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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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Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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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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Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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