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.

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.

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.

I'm older now but still running against the wind

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

She never looks at the ring.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Make a destination of the greater truth.

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.

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

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.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

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.