Bob Seger Quotes - Page 3

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.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

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.

And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode.

With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.

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.

I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

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.

I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to

Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard.

Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.

He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.

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.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

I've never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They've been really good by me.

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.