George Thorogood Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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