Stood alone on a mountain top, starin’ out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’ and my soul began to rise.
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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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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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
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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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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
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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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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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Yeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.
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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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Deep in my soul, I’ve been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I’ve longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I’ll keep searching after today.
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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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Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can’t. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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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.
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