Quotes by George Thorogood

About George Thorogood:

George Thorogood is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Wilmington, Delaware. His "high-energy boogie-blues" sound became a staple of 1980s rock radio, with hits like his original songs "Bad to the Bone" and "I Drink Alone". He has also helped popularize older songs by American icons, such as "Move It on Over," "Who Do You Love?" and "House Rent Boogie/One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer", which became staples of classic rock radio.
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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

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

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

George Thorogood

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

George Thorogood

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

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

George Thorogood

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

George Thorogood

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

George Thorogood

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 num...

George Thorogood

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

George Thorogood

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

George Thorogood

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

George Thorogood

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

George Thorogood

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

George Thorogood

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

George Thorogood

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

George Thorogood

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

George Thorogood

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameGeorge Thorogood
  • DescriptionAmerican blues rock vocalist/guitarist
  • BornDecember 24, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Guitarist; Baseball Player