I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but... -Alvin Lee

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.

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Alvin Lee was an English guitarist and singer best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the blues-rock band Ten Years After. Lee's fiery guitar playing and energetic performances made him a prominent figure in the 1960s and 1970s music scene. His influential style and virtuosic skills have inspired generations of guitarists.

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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 ...
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 quarte...
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 ...
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...
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 a...
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music....
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 Clu...
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 Broonz...
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books....
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...

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If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun....
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal....
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident....
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination....
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions....
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been o...
No sanction can stand against ignited minds....
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me....
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities....
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want....