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

George Thorogood

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George Thorogood
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 24
Baseball Player
Guitarist
Singer
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Wilmington
Delaware
George Lawrence Thorogood
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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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I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.
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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.
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I drink alone. Yeah, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.
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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.
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Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.
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I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.
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The [2012 covers album] 2120 [South Michigan Ave.] was different. We covered a lot of classics there. But most of the time when we did it I always prided myself on digging up obscure songs that no one knew of.
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Pain I keep to myself my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.
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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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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 didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.
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There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.
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Everybody funny, now you funny too.
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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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