Bob Seger famous quotes

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

#Simple #Trying #Littles

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
-- Bob Seger

#Writing #Winter #Stuff

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Wedding #Boxing #Together

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

#Song #Writing #Long

I'd rather make music than tour.
-- Bob Seger

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

#Real #Joy #Musician

I drive a Mustang. A 2005 five-speed GT convertible.
-- Bob Seger

#Speed #Mustang

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.
-- Bob Seger

#Car #Parent #Singing

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

#Special #Nails #Now And Then

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

#Monday #Michigan #Garbage

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

#Wind #Way

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

#People #Needs #Affirmation

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

#Writing #Challenges #Trying

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
-- Bob Seger

#Kids #Thinking #Forget

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

#Strong #Blessed #Healthy

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Friendship #Home #Past

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Lonely #Sadness #Soul

She never looks at the ring.
-- Bob Seger

#Relationship #Looks #Rings

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

#Beautiful #Fall #Reality

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Optimistic #Play #People

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Singing #Playing Music #Lines

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Commitment #Light #People

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

#Track #Strings #Quarterback

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

#Juniors #Junior High #Way

I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
-- Bob Seger

#Summer #Winter #Play

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
-- Bob Seger

#Wish

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
-- Bob Seger

#Love #Family #Happiness

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Motorcycle #Love My Family #Aspect

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

#Thinking

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

#Inspirational #Land #Light

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

#Fire #Evil #Common

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Men #Night #Light

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

#Lying #Echoes #Rock And Roll

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

#Light #Purpose #Politics

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Hurt #Giving #Wish

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

#Rocks #Arrows #Charging

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Art #Stars #Media

He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
-- Bob Seger

#Art #Home #Night

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 #Past #Night

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

#Love #Lonely #Games

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
-- Bob Seger

#Book #Captains #Heroic

They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
-- Bob Seger

#Watches #Respect Her

She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
-- Bob Seger

#Faces #Saws #Compliment

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

#Song #Long #Sitting

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

#Sex #Remember #Wonderful

I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.
-- Bob Seger

#Song #Men #Numbers

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
-- Bob Seger

#Wind #Sun #Gone

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Song #Rap #Roots

I'm older now but still running against the wind
-- Bob Seger

#Running #Wind #Stills

Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.
-- Bob Seger

#Radio #Unbelievable

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

#Night #Play #Two

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Kids #Night #Play

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Home #Kids #Opportunity

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Running #Reality #Way

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

#Reality #Yesterday #Tonight

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

#Long #Dancer #Lovely

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

#Dancing #Down And #Bops

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

#Baby #Children #Rocks

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

#Men #Sometimes #Cliche

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

#Want #Bother #Miscellaneous

She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed.
-- Bob Seger

#Baby #Evil #Addresses

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

#Pain #Work #Names

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.
-- Bob Seger

#Work #Moving #Eight

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.
-- Bob Seger

#Memories #Expression #Soul

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 #Rocks #Rock And Roll

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

#Philosophy #Soul #Mountain

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

#Dream #Fire #Watches

Make a destination of the greater truth.
-- Bob Seger

#Destination #Adages

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.
-- Bob Seger

#Commitment #Needs #Mediocrity

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
-- Bob Seger

#Tree #Victory #Watches

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.
-- Bob Seger

#Wall #Honesty #Looks

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

#Honesty #Share #Used

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

#Philosophy #Home #Sea

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

#Philosophy #Passages #Higher

It's the age of reason for the anarchist.
-- Bob Seger

#Philosophy #Age #Anarchist

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

#Heart #Advice #Shrines