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I write a lot of songs people don’t hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish ’em all. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

Bob Seger

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.
BOB SEGER

People Want Should
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
Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
BOB SEGER

Echoes Lying Music Rock Roll
And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
BOB SEGER

Bother Miscellaneous Want
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 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
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
BOB SEGER

Dancer Long Social Taboos
Deep in my soul, I’ve been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I’ve longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I’ll keep searching after today.
BOB SEGER

Lonely Sadness Soul
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
BOB SEGER

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

Book Captains Heroic
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.
BOB SEGER

Boring Neck Night Play Sing Two
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
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
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
I’ve never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They’ve been really good by me.
BOB SEGER

Capitol never People Unhappy

I write a lot of songs people don’t hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish ’em all. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

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