I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
BOB SEGERHe wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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 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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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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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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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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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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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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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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And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That’s the challenge.
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Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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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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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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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.
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Every now and then you’ll nail one that’s really, really special. And that’s what you live for.
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I’m just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what’s going to happen tomorrow.
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I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that’s why I’ve never done a session where I don’t sing live.
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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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Make a destination of the greater truth.
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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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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.
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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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Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
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Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth’s soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.
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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.
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