George Thorogood Quotes

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music.

I listen to old music, man.

The Delmore Brothers is hit music - very, very popular - and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always think of it as family music, really, because families sang it.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

If you ask any couple who have been married 50 years or longer, they will tell you they've experienced it all. The same is true of the Beach Boys.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

I don't use old music.

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.

I was reared on folk music.

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.