Quotes by Alvin Lee - Page 1

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Artist
Solo
Thinking
Solo Artist
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Back in those days we thought we could change the world.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Change The World
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I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Changing The World
Knows
World
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It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Double Bass
Double Standard
First Time
Firsts
Be The First
Time Live Will
Double
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Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Book
World
Anywhere
Books
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So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Ten
Very Happy
Years
I Am Me Happy
Ten Years
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I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Dad
Clarinet
Goodman
Listening
Records
Benny
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I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Gigs
Green
Guitar
Marquee
Peter
Particularly
Gig
John
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I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Boring
Chords
Guitar
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I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Basics
Guitar
Modern
Thinking
Van Halen
Eddie
Halen
Van
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That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Jazz
Adopt
Attitudes
Blues
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We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Organised
Texas
Festival
Gig
Musically
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It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Different Things
Relative
Freedom Always People
Different People
Searching
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My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
All Time
Chuck
Rock And Roll
Scotty
Berry
Favorite
Players
Listened
Rock
Moore
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My solos are more tastefully conceived now. But I still get going in places. It's just that I build up to it now. I don't race off on a solo. I take my time.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
My Time
Solo
Conceived
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It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Charlie
Christian
Goodman
Guitar
Guitarist
Play
Began
Big Band
Solos
Musicians
Notice
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The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Anniversary
Smile
Chance
Band
Reunion
Thinking
Chances
Likely
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George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Famous
Fame
Friendly
Guy
Nice
People
Pleasure
Spite
Work Famous People
George
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It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Movie
Another Way
Changed
Ten
Beginning
Start People Way
People Say
Some People
Ten Years
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There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Sister
Age
Gaps
Supportive
Life Age Myself
Although
Younger
Sisters
Gap
Later
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They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Journey
Ten
Thinking
Years
Ten Years
To Be Honest
Tour
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We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Clubs
Middle Earth
Ufo
Rock Band
String
Underground
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Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Bother
Musician
School
School Years
Waste
Way
Years
Time Enough Way
Just Something
Strangely
Waste Of Time
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It wasn't very satisfying playing the big arenas, but it was good as far as a paycheck. But the sound was terrible, especially in hockey arenas - the sound would go on for 30 seconds after we quit playing.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Hockey
Satisfying
Seconds
Arenas
Paycheck
Quit
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He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Compliment
Huge
Paid
Thinking Me Keep
Thinking Me Song
Crying
Saw
Himself
In Fact
Similar
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I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Guitar
Practice
School
Shapes
Strings
Neck
Chord
Desk
Fret
Hidden
Seriously
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I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Blur
Crowds
Disappear
Faces
Hundred
People
Play
Almost
Becomes
Few
Rows
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... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing ... I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Music
Gigs
Voice
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My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Living Room
Time Home Always
Time Home Heart
Blues
Both My Parents
Ethnic
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Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at the Marquee Club in London and was very impressed. He was the only guitarist I've ever seen to turn the volume control on his guitar down during a solo.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Green
Guitarist
Impressed
Marquee
Peter
Solo
Subtle
Volume
Preferred
Strangely
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I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I'm serious. Listen to your radio station.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Recycling
Weeks
Time Music Listening
Healthy Thing
Radio Station
Strongly
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My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Montgomery
Muddy
Three
Albert
Barney
Bill
Blues
Favorite
City
Liked
John
Lee
Ralph
Waters
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That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Mountain
Ether
Grabbed
Reached
Recorded
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I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Compromise
Epitome
Guitarist
Position
Six
Music Always Guitar
Music Guitar Me
Began
Music Guitar Always
Forced
Originally
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