George Thorogood Quotes

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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

  Song, People, Beard

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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

  Water, Berries, Keith

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.

  George Thorogood

  Sleep, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "A conversation with rock legend George Thorogood". Interview with Larry Widen, onmilwaukee.com. May 29, 2015.

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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

  Friendship, Brother, Party

  Song: I Drink Alone

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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

  Nurse, Joy, Wonder

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

  George Thorogood

  Drinking, Alcohol, Drug

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

  George Thorogood

  Family, Parent, Taught

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• Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

  George Thorogood

  Rocks, Radio, Classic

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• Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.

  George Thorogood

  Sleep, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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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

  Beer, Drink, Yeah

  Song: I Drink Alone

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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

  Grandfather, Care, Don't Leave Me

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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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

  Good Woman, Rich, Stealing

  Song: Bad to the Bone

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

  George Thorogood

  Song, Knows

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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

  Trying, Entertainment, Minutes

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• Everybody funny, now you funny too.

  George Thorogood

  Alcohol, Drug, Drugs And Alcohol

  Song: One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

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

  George Thorogood

  Player, Guitar, Slides

  "George Thorogood and The Destroyers hit Hard Rock at Northfield Park July 1". Cleveland Music Examiner Interview, www.georgethorogood.com.

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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

  Girl, Song, Guitar

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• 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

  Wings, Careers, Luck

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• You know when your mouth a-getting dry
  You're plenty high.

  George Thorogood

  Dry, Mouths, Knows

  "Song: 'One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer'". 1977.

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• I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed in the wool blues cat, but I rock out when I do my show you know that.

  George Thorogood

  Cat, Rocks, Ideas

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Rock music is stronger than sports. That's why. Rock rules. Around the world, who's more famous: Willie Mays or Paul McCartney?

  George Thorogood

  Sports, Rocks, Stronger

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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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

  Mother, Daughter, Song

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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

  Guitar, Should Have, Laughing

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• As you get older the odds are against you that you are still going to be on the planet.

  George Thorogood

  Odds, Planets, Stills

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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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

  Children, People, Zeppelins

  "George Thorogood and The Destroyers hit Hard Rock at Northfield Park July 1". Cleveland Music Examiner Interview, www.georgethorogood.com.

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