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 SEGERI was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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I’ve never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They’ve been really good by 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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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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My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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Great sex is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
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I’d rather make music than tour.
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