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 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
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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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Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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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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Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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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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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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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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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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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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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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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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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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