George Thorogood Quotes

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 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."

Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Everybody funny, now you funny too.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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