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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.

Bob Seger

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

Common Evil Fire
She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
BOB SEGER

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

Book Captains Heroic
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
Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
BOB SEGER

Beautiful Fall Reality
He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
BOB SEGER

Home Philosophy Sea
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
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
BOB SEGER

Long Song Writing
And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
BOB SEGER

Bother Miscellaneous Want
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
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
Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
BOB SEGER

Fragmented Radio Unbelievable
Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth’s soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.
BOB SEGER

Flames Lonely Love
When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That’s the challenge.
BOB SEGER

Challenges Trying Writing

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