155 Quotes by Bob Seger

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.

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

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.

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.

I’m not a number. Dammit, I’m a man.

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

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.

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