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 SEGERStood 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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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It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
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I’d rather make music than tour.
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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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One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
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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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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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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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Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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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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I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
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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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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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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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