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.
BOB SEGERHe spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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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.
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Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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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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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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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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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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It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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I’m older now but still running against the wind
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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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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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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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