Bob Seger Quotes

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.

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

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.

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.

Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.

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.

Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.

I'm older now but still running against the wind

Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?

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

My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

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.

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 drive a Mustang. A 2005 five-speed GT convertible.

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

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

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.

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right.

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.

Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.

To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

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.

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.

Make a destination of the greater truth.

I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.

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.

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