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.
Bob SegerRead
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.'
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects on the value of revisiting past works and recognizing their significance.
Bob Seger shares his evolving perspective on creating a box set, initially viewing it as a sign of running out of new ideas. Upon revisiting his older music, he realizes that these forgotten tracks have value and resonance, suggesting that revisiting the past can reveal treasures that still hold meaning and can be appreciated by listeners.
Themes
MusicReflectionNostalgiaCreativityRevisit
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech at a music festival, a songwriter might share this quote to emphasize the importance of reflecting on one's artistic journey.
More from Bob Seger
All quotes →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.
Bob SegerRead
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
Bob SegerRead
Similar quotes
I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.
Freddie MercuryRead
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRead
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane AustenRead
I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.
Paul RandRead
I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
Damien ChazelleRead
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
Vincent Van GoghRead