Bob Seger Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It's the age of reason for the anarchist.

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.

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.

I never say never, because I don't want to be one of those guys.

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

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.

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

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.

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

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.

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

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.

I do try to go home as much as possible after each show. I've got my own plane. I'm very fortunate.

I'm older now but still running against the wind

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

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.

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

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

Make a destination of the greater truth.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'

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

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

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.

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

I'm not a tour rat. I'm not crazy about it.

I'd rather make music than tour.

Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.

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

I really enjoy being with the people I play with. I enjoy their company. I love the crew, the band - we just move through the country like an army. I always feel very grateful to be up there. There aren't any bad nights anymore unless I'm singing bad, but then the band will carry me. And if they're playing bad, I will carry them..

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

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

He wants to dream like a young man with the wisdom of a old man, he wants his home and securities, he wants to live like a sailor at sea. Beautiful loser..where you gonna fall? When you realize you just can't have it all, you just dont need it all. He is your oldest and your best friend, when you need him he'll be there again, he is always willing to be second best, a perfect lodger; a perfect guest." ~ Beautiful Loser

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

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.

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

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.

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

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.