Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
BOB SEGERIf 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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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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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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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There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
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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 write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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I’d rather make music than tour.
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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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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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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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Make a destination of the greater truth.
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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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My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
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They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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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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It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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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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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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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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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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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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