One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
BOB SEGERHe spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
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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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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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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 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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He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
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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’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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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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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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They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I’ve gotta rest it for a night. So it’s the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
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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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I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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