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 SEGERI work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
More Bob Seger Quotes
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Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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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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He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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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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When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
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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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Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.
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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.
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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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I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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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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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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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.
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Make a destination of the greater truth.
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