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.
BOB SEGERWhen 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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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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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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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It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
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Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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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 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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He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
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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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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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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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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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