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This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do.
George Thorogood
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When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.
George Thorogood
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Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.
George Thorogood
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I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.
George Thorogood
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My grandfather used to say I don't care how you talk about me, good or bad, just don't leave me out of the conversation.
George Thorogood
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I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.
George Thorogood
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Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
George Thorogood
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The other day I got invited to a party, but I stayed home instead. Just me and my pal Johnny Walker and his brothers Black and Red.
George Thorogood
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I said if you want to be Keith Richards, you've got to listen to Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. Then I thought, "What did Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry listen to?" I said, "They listened to Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters." Well who'd they listen to? They listened to Robert Johnson. I said, "Ok, we'll start with that."
George Thorogood
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Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.
George Thorogood
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All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.
George Thorogood
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Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.
George Thorogood
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My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.
George Thorogood
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I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.
George Thorogood
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Led Zeppelin, they still rule the airwaves. I hear Zeppelin every day, and they've been around since '69. So the people who grew up with that still listen to that, and now their children listen to it.
George Thorogood
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If you don't start drinking, I'm gonna leave.
George Thorogood
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On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.
George Thorogood
18.
I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.
George Thorogood
19.
Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.
George Thorogood
20.
Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?
George Thorogood
21.
You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.
George Thorogood
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I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.
George Thorogood
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After the Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964, at approx. 8:04pm [laughs], after that moment every album, every guitar, evey set of drums that was ever sold ... 10% should have gone right into their pocket!
George Thorogood
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I drink alone. Yeah, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.
George Thorogood
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Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.
George Thorogood
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There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.
George Thorogood
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I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
George Thorogood
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Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.
George Thorogood
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There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.
George Thorogood
30.
[European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the only difference.
George Thorogood
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I love Willy DeVille. He's very missed.
George Thorogood
32.
Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.
George Thorogood
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I'm a [Bob] Dylan freak, like everybody else.
George Thorogood
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I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising.
George Thorogood
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I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just classify these people and put them in categories so they can sell the thing easier.
George Thorogood
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I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.
George Thorogood
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How would you define [Bob] Dylan? You can't. That's a true artist. How about Ray Charles? Can you classify Ray Charles? No, you can't. He's just great, period.
George Thorogood
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I figured if you want to get to where John Hammond is or Billy Gibbons is or Peter Wolf is, you have to start listening to the same stuff they did, and learn from that, and that's what I did.
George Thorogood
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My father had a couple of Mitch Miller records and a Spike Jones record, and that was it. My older brother had two or three Elvis Presley singles, and that was about it. The rest of it I did on my own.
George Thorogood
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Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog.
George Thorogood
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I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.
George Thorogood
42.
I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.
George Thorogood
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Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.
George Thorogood
44.
The [2012 covers album] 2120 [South Michigan Ave.] was different. We covered a lot of classics there. But most of the time when we did it I always prided myself on digging up obscure songs that no one knew of.
George Thorogood
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Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.
George Thorogood
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I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan. But anything that's new, as long as it's good I enjoy it.
George Thorogood
47.
They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.
George Thorogood
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Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.
George Thorogood
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I really, really, really, really, really, really, really like girls.
George Thorogood
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Every morning just before breakfast I don't want no coffee or tea, just me and my good Buddy Wieser, that's all I ever need.
George Thorogood
