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 SEGEROut 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.
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Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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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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I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
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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.
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He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
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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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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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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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Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.
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If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you’re not really needed by your family, but you’re there. And my kids like to know I’m there.
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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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I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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I’d rather make music than tour.
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