Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
BOB SEGERI 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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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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I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
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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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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 can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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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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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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I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
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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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Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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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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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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Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my ’60 Chevy. Workin’ on mysteries without any clues, workin’ on our night moves.
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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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