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 SEGERI can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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I’d rather make music than tour.
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I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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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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I’m just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what’s going to happen tomorrow.
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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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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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I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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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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My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
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Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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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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