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Yeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.

Bob Seger

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
When you’re in a relationship, you’re always surrounded by a ring of circumstances… joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.
BOB SEGER

Boxing Relationship Wedding
He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
BOB SEGER

Art Home Night
I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
BOB SEGER

Quarterback String Track
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.
BOB SEGER

Fashion Music Rocks Roll Soul
Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
BOB SEGER

Gone Sun Wind
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
BOB SEGER

Stuff Winter Writing
Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
BOB SEGER

Expression Knows Wish
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
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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Moving Mysteries Night Past
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
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 SEGER

Done People Table
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
BOB SEGER

Common Evil Fire
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
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
BOB SEGER

Long Song Writing
He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
BOB SEGER

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

Book Captains Heroic
Yeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.
BOB SEGER

Blessed Healthy Strong
I’m older now but still running against the wind
BOB SEGER

Running Stills Wind
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
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
Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
BOB SEGER

Remember Sex Wonderful
She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
BOB SEGER

Compliment Faces Saws
They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
BOB SEGER

Respect Her Watches
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
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.
BOB SEGER

Honesty Looks Wall
Tell them we’ll be dancing, dancing ’til we drop, it’s time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.
BOB SEGER

Bops Dancing Down

Yeah, I’m just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I’m very healthy in that regard.

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