top of page
Exlpore more Career quotes

"Losing your job brings you closer to your destiny."

"Getting fired from work is not a tragedy."

"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."

"Having a job is being busy."

"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."

"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."

"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."

"More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio."
Explore more quotes by George Thorogood

"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."

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

"The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio."

"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."
bottom of page