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" 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. "

George Thorogood

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" 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. "

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People

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

George Thorogood

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

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