"Strangely enough, through all those school years I……" — Alvin Lee
"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."
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23 Quotes by Alvin Lee
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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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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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I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few…
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