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.Collection: Famous
I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.Collection: Music
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 didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.
Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.
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.
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.
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.
Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.
Did I think it would last 30 years? No, I didn't think it would have those kind of legs.
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 knew I had the right material and I knew what I was going after.
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.
I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.
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 reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.
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.
There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.
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.
We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.
Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?
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.
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.
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."Collection: Water
Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.Collection: Sleep
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.Collection: Friendship
On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.Collection: Nurse
If you don't start drinking, I'm gonna leave.Collection: Drinking
My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.Collection: Family
Rock 'n' roll never sleeps it just passes out.Collection: Sleep
I drink alone. Yeah, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.Collection: Beer
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.Collection: Grandfather
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.Collection: Good Woman
Everybody funny, now you funny too.Collection: Alcohol
I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.Collection: Player
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.Collection: Cat
Rock music is stronger than sports. That's why. Rock rules. Around the world, who's more famous: Willie Mays or Paul McCartney?Collection: Sports
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!Collection: Guitar
As you get older the odds are against you that you are still going to be on the planet.Collection: Odds
When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.Collection: Kings
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.Collection: Children
[European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the only difference.Collection: Differences
Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.Collection: Pain
I'm a [Bob] Dylan freak, like everybody else.Collection: Bob
My father had a couple of Mitch Miller records and a Spike Jones record, and that was it. My older brother had two or three Elvis Presley singles, and that was about it. The rest of it I did on my own.Collection: Brother
I figured if you want to get to where John Hammond is or Billy Gibbons is or Peter Wolf is, you have to start listening to the same stuff they did, and learn from that, and that's what I did.Collection: Listening
I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.Collection: Fans
I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising.Collection: Choices