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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

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

Expression Knows Wish
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
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
BOB SEGER

Stuff Winter Writing
Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can’t. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
BOB SEGER

Cliche Men Sometimes
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
BOB SEGER

Dancer Long Social Taboos
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.
BOB SEGER

Moving Mysteries Night Past
Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
BOB SEGER

Fragmented Radio Unbelievable
He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
BOB SEGER

Art Home Night
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
BOB SEGER

Common Evil Fire
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
Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
BOB SEGER

Gone Sun Wind
It went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight, somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right.
BOB SEGER

Reality Tonight Yesterday
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
I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
BOB SEGER

Play Summer Winter
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

Song Thinking Writing
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
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
Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
BOB SEGER

Beautiful Fall Reality
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.
BOB SEGER

Littles Simple Trying
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
When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
BOB SEGER

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

Book Captains Heroic
Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
BOB SEGER

Tree Victory Watches
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

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