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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.

George Thorogood

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George Thorogood
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 24
Baseball Player
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Wilmington
Delaware
George Lawrence Thorogood
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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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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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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.
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Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working you know what I'm saying?
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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.
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I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.
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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.
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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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As you get older the odds are against you that you are still going to be on the planet.
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They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.
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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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Everybody funny, now you funny too.
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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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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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I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just classify these people and put them in categories so they can sell the thing easier.
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