When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That’s the challenge.
BOB SEGERI 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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Make a destination of the greater truth.
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I’m older now but still running against the wind
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Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
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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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Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.
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And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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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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