George Thorogood Quotes

We do write our own music.

I don't have a journal; I write music.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

I love writing music.

I think it's down to our songs - we've always made sure every song on every album works.

I write my music.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.

I really, really like writing songs.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

I'm very strong creatively, in my music.

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.