It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
BOB SEGERDeep 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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I want to be sure I can deliver what people expect to hear. I just don’t know if I can physically do it. Or if I should.
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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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Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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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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Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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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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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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When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That’s the challenge.
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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
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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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Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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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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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.
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Yeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.
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I’m older now but still running against the wind
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I’d rather make music than tour.
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They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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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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I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
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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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Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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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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