Quotes from George Thorogood

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

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.

I love Willy DeVille. He's very missed.

I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising.

I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.