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One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

Bob Seger

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.
BOB SEGER

Song Thinking Writing
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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Book Captains Heroic
I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
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Quarterback String Track
Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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Beautiful Fall Reality
Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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Tree Victory Watches
When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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Forget Kids Thinking
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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Boxing Relationship Wedding
I’d rather make music than tour.
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Long Make Music Tour
He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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Home Philosophy Sea
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.
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Mountain Philosophy Soul
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
BOB SEGER

Long Song Writing
Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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Fragmented Radio Unbelievable
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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Cliche Men Sometimes
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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Common Evil Fire
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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People Want Should
It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn’t until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.
BOB SEGER

Recording Tour Two Writing Years

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