George Thorogood Quotations

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.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

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.

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.

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.

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

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.

I knew I had the right material and I knew what I was going after.

Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.

Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

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.

I figured the people who liked the sort of thing I was doing would come see it. If it was only 200 then that was alright and if it was 2000 then that is alright as well. I wasn't really interested in the big numbers; I was just interested in some numbers.

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.

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

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.

Did I think it would last 30 years? No, I didn't think it would have those kind of legs.

I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

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.

I was not a big Allman Brothers fan but I could relate to that because that is what the flavor of the day was at that time - at least it was like that for me.

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece.

I take it that some of you people have heard this song before.

I went after that sort of music. It's the best music I could play. I pretty much chose this music, not only out of passion but by a process of elimination.

We'd never be in this position if it weren't for our fans. They're the real reason we keep going and as long as they want us, we'll be there.

I liked all music when I was a kid: blues, rock 'n' roll, country and reggae. I don't think I can play (rock 'n' roll) any better or worse. I think it has to do with the songs I picked, the material I introduced to the mainstream.

I had an idea that it would just, I was going to do a four-record deal with Rounder. I was going to do two studio albums, a live album and an all-acoustic album, a solo album, which I have yet to do. And then I was just going to take whatever notoriety I had and I was going to come to like California and try to get small bit parts in movies or something. Small parts, not leading parts, not like Elvis Presley did. I'm talking about just small parts and then maybe just play music on the side. It just didn't work out that way.

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.

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.

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

I drink alone. Yeah, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.

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.

Everybody funny, now you funny too.

If you don't start drinking, I'm gonna leave.

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really like girls.

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.

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.

You know when your mouth a-gettin' dry, you're plenty high

I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.

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!

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.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

I don't mind hearing new stuff if the new stuff is good. But if it's not good, then I just want to hear the old stuff. John Fogerty is going to be very hard pressed to write any more songs that are as good as 'Fortunate Son' and 'Green River' and 'Old Man Down The Road.' He's a hard act to follow. He's trying to follow himself.