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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.

Bob Seger

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
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
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.
BOB SEGER

Fashion Music Rocks Roll Soul
He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
BOB SEGER

Home Philosophy Sea
Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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Echoes Lying Music Rock Roll
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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Book Captains Heroic
My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
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Light Politics Purpose
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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Common Evil Fire
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
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
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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Stuff Winter Writing
And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode.
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Bother Miscellaneous Want
I’ve never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They’ve been really good by me.
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Capitol never People Unhappy
I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that’s why I’ve never done a session where I don’t sing live.
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Done People Table
I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.
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Names Pain Work
I’m older now but still running against the wind
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Running Stills Wind
I’d rather make music than tour.
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Long Make Music Tour
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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Long Song Writing
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
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
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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Boxing Relationship Wedding
Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.
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Fragmented Radio Unbelievable
Make a destination of the greater truth.
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Adages Destination Greater
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
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
Stood alone on a mountain top, starin’ out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’ and my soul began to rise.
BOB SEGER

Mountain Philosophy Soul
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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