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

  • They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

  • Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog.

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  • 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.

  • [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.

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  • 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.

    "George Thorogood and The Destroyers hit Hard Rock at Northfield Park July 1". Cleveland Music Examiner Interview, www.georgethorogood.com.
  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

  • 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.

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  • 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!

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

  • 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.

  • I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.

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

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  • Everybody funny, now you funny too.

    Song: One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
  • I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.

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

    Fans   Bigs  
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  • 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.

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

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • How would you define [Bob] Dylan? You can't. That's a true artist. How about Ray Charles? Can you classify Ray Charles? No, you can't. He's just great, period.

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  • Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.

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