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 SEGERTake a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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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Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can’t. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
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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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Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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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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My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
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Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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