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Alvin Lee has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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, but in…
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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…
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With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.
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I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
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My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the…
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Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.
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At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like…
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My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never…
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It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
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