Bob Seger 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.

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

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.

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.

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.

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.

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

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

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm older now but still running against the wind

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

She never looks at the ring.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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