Bob Seger Quotes

•  Every now and then you’ll nail one that’s really, really special. And that’s what you live for.

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• I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

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• I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

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• Great s*x is wonderful while it’s happening, but who remembers great s*x they had in 1983?

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• I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.

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• I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Radio is so fragmented, it’s unbelievable.

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• 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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• 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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Bob Seger (35)

Birth:	6th May, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Pianist, Singer, Songwriter

About

Bob Seger was born in Michigan. He is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger's best-selling singles and albums. Seger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012.

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