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. - QuotesChannel

Author : A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

12,865,728 quotes searched till now

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.

Father Big Both My Parents

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

Join us on

Newsletter

Subscribe to our weekly Newsletter and stay tuned.

Related Quotes to Author

If you want a complete list of related quotes by your most famous author, then Quotes Channel related quotes is an ideal section to provide you with a variety of inspirational and motivational quotes by your favorite author.

Read World Books

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

- Alvin Lee

Another Having Likely

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

Almost Play Hundred

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

Play Middle String

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

Which Gig Organised

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

Think Which Very

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

Very Big Supportive

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

Through Out Waste Of Time

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

Happy Doing Very

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

- Alvin Lee

Will Bass Double

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

- Alvin Lee

Some Beginning Movie

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

Listening Play Big

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

Green See Particularly

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

- Alvin Lee

Think Artist I Think

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

- Alvin Lee

Think Van Basics

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

Listening Benny Records

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

- Alvin Lee

About Practice Hidden

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

Doing Fact Play

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

Work Famous Pleasure

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

World Change The World

Back in those days we thought we could change the world.

- Alvin Lee

Quotes currently Trending

Are you looking for the most trending quotes to inspire you? Visit our section on trending quotes that are currently popular among every visitor to our site and the internet. Keep in touch with what words of wisdom make the most sense to people so you too can relate to them.

Think More Father

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

- A. J. Foyt

Need Father Accordingly

I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

- A. R. Rahman

Father Sometimes Instance

When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

- A. R. Rahman

Some Father Career

My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

- A. R. Rahman

Father Generation Waitress

When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.

- Alison Owen

Father Small Luckiest

The luckiest person in the world is somebody who is born into a small, shabby-genteel town on a major railway connection with 24,000 souls and a bird sanctuary and whose grandfather owns a farm and whose father owns a business -whose family is mildly prosperous but not rich, which means you can leave the town.

- Allan Gurganus

Life Father Mentor

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

- Allan Houston

Father Big Both My Parents

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

Part Still Both My Parents

Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.

- Andy Serkis

Both Idea Both My Parents

I'm Cuban. Both my parents are Cuban. My grandparents are, too. Although I have no idea where Fit comes from.

- Chrissie Fit

Country Both My Parents

I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce.

- Christa Miller

Became Both My Parents

Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.

- Clive Davis

Very Dad Both My Parents

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

- Daisy Ridley

Doing Very Both My Parents

The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.

- Ben Mendelsohn

Think Big Theatrical

Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.

- Mel Gibson

Like Big Planes

I don't like to stop. I'm a big person who looks at where the hubs are because I hate changing planes.

- Mia Hamm

Very Big Very Early Age

I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.

- Susan Hayward

Set Big Ghost

It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.

- Susan Hill

Big Today Willingness

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

- Michael Bloomberg

Big Famous Rich

I didn't live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn't live in a big house.

- Rohan Marley

Over Big BBC

After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.

- Michael Bond