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.
BOB SEGEREvery now and then you’ll nail one that’s really, really special. And that’s what you live for.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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 can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
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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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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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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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They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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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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I 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.
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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’d rather make music than tour.
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Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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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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