"I think a lot of modern day guitarists……" — Alvin Lee
"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."
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23 Quotes by Alvin Lee
Alvin Lee has 23 quotes on this site.
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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…
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My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all -…
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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…
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My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day…
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We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would…
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We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the…
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Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician…
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I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good…
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Back in those days we thought we could change the world.
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Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
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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,…
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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,…
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More Basics Quotes
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Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot…
— Gerard Arpey
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You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours…
— Amy Chua
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Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics…
— Pat Riley
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lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should…
— Paul Farmer
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That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work.
— Martyn Rooney
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After you have the basics down it's all mental.
— Ken Venturi
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In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill…
— George A. Sheehan
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Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.
— W. Edwards Deming
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If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of…
— Nicholas Stern
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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, "Why am I doing…
— Lyn St. James
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I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken…
— Lesley Nicol
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