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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.

Bob Seger

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 SEGER

Lines Music Playing Singing
Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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Fragmented Radio Unbelievable
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.
BOB SEGER

Mountain Philosophy Soul
I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
BOB SEGER

Quarterback String Track
I’d rather make music than tour.
BOB SEGER

Long Make Music Tour
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.
BOB SEGER

Friendship Home Past
My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
BOB SEGER

Light Politics Purpose
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
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Family Life Love
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.
BOB SEGER

Littles Simple Trying
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.
BOB SEGER

Home Kids Opportunity
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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Common Evil Fire
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.
BOB SEGER

Golf Kids Play
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
BOB SEGER

Dancer Long Social Taboos
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.
BOB SEGER

People Want Should
I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
BOB SEGER

Names Pain Work
Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
BOB SEGER

Tree Victory Watches
It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
BOB SEGER

Reality Tonight Yesterday
He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
BOB SEGER

Home Philosophy Sea
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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Stuff Winter Writing
Make a destination of the greater truth.
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Adages Destination Greater
Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
BOB SEGER

High Junior Juniors Way
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.
BOB SEGER

Recording Tour Two Writing Years
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.
BOB SEGER

Song Thinking Writing
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.
BOB SEGER

Optimistic People Play
And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
BOB SEGER

Bother Miscellaneous Want
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 SEGER

Choices Country Fun
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
BOB SEGER

Book Captains Heroic

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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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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