Top 100 Bob Seger Quotes
#1. Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.
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#2. Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.
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#3. We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don't do a whole lot to promote myself.
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#4. 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.
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#5. She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
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#6. Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.
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#7. I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.
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#8. 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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#9. I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast.
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#10. You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.
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#11. I had kids at age 47, and very late in life, and I'd been doing it for 30 straight years, writing songs, making a record and touring and starting the process right over.
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#12. Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
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#13. 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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#14. 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.
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#15. 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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#16. We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life.
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#17. 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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#18. It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right.
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#19. The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone for the first time.
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#20. Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.
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#21. I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
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#22. 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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#23. I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to
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#25. I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe ... We are living in a wonderland age of science.
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#26. I guess I lost my way, there were so many roads. I was living to run, and running to live, never worried about paying or even how much I owed.
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#27. I do try to go home as much as possible after each show. I've got my own plane. I'm very fortunate.
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#28. I'm not a tour rat. I'm not crazy about it.
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#29. Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
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#30. Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.
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#31. Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
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#32. 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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#33. Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.
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#34. You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.
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#35. I'd rather make music than tour.
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#36. 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.
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#37. Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
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#38. Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.
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#39. I'm older now but still running against the wind
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#40. Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.
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#41. That's a good way to live, go against the wind.
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#42. 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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#43. One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
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#44. With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
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#45. 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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#46. He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
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#47. I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.
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#48. I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.
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#49. Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.
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#50. I'm listing to music all the time. I have favorite artists. Kid Rock loves the Civil Wars' song 'Barton Hollow.' We both said that's our favorite country song of the year. That knocks me out.
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#51. Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
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#52. I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can't do that anymore.
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#53. I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
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#54. Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.
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#55. He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
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#56. I've never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They've been really good by me.
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#57. To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.
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#58. Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I've longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I'll keep searching after today.
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#59. Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.
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#60. 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.
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#61. She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed.
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#62. 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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#63. Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard.
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#64. Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fine, here comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on time. There go the street lights bringing on the night, here come the men faces hidden from the light.
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#65. I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.
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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.
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#69. Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.
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#70. I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.
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#71. I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.
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#72. Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.
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#73. I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.
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#74. It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.
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#75. I never say never, because I don't want to be one of those guys.
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#76. Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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#77. There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
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#78. I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.
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#79. I don't have and have never had an email address. I'm old school. But as far as downloads go, my only objection is I like the sound of CDs better, so I buy those. I think the sound quality is better.
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#80. I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
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#81. My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.
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#82. I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied it together.
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#83. I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
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#84. 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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#85. My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
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#86. When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
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#87. Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
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#88. I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.
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#89. Make a destination of the greater truth.
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#90. And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode ...
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#91. 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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#92. Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.
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#93. It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
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#94. When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.
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#95. They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
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#96. It's the age of reason for the anarchist.
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#97. I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.
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#98. 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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#99. 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.
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#100. The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer ... I don't know why that started ... The way I sing, probably.
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