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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.
Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.
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.
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.
She never looks at the ring.
My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.
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.
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.
Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.
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.
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.
Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.
She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed.
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.
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.
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.
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
He spent all night staring down at the lights on L.A., wondering if he ever could go home.
It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right.
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.
She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.
It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.
Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.
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'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.
With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.
To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.
I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.
I've never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They've been really good by me.
They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.
I'm older now but still running against the wind
Make a destination of the greater truth.
Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode.
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.
Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.
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.
Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.
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.
He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.
Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.
I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to