I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
BOB SEGERI 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.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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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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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.
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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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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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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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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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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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Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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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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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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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.
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I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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