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Bob Seger

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I’m old fashion, say I’m over the hill. Today’s music ain’t got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.
BOB SEGER

Fashion Music Rocks Roll Soul
Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
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Remember Sex Wonderful
Make a destination of the greater truth.
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Adages Destination Greater
When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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Forget Kids Thinking
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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Cliche Men Sometimes
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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Done People Table
Every now and then you’ll nail one that’s really, really special. And that’s what you live for.
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Nails Now Special Then
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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Recording Tour Two Writing Years
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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Moving Mysteries Night Past
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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Book Captains Heroic
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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Stuff Winter Writing
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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Home Kids Opportunity
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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Lines Music Playing Singing
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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Flames Lonely Love
When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That’s the challenge.
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Challenges Trying Writing
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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Song Thinking Writing
She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
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Compliment Faces Saws
Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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Gone Sun Wind
Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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Echoes Lying Music Rock Roll
He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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Home Philosophy Sea
They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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Respect Her Watches
I’ve never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They’ve been really good by me.
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Capitol never People Unhappy
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.
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Optimistic People Play
Yeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.
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Blessed Healthy Strong
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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Golf Kids Play
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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Long Song Writing
My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
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Light Politics Purpose

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