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.
BOB SEGERI 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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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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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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I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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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 work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
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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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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.
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Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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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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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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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.
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I’ve never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They’ve been really good by me.
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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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