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Alvin Lee Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: December 19, 1944 - March 6, 2013

Topics

Listening Inspired Playing Started

I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.

Football Fight Stand Done Frozen

In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.

McKayla Maroney

Best Competition Hair Makeup Look

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

Discipline Ideas Song You Know Kind

Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.

Angela Ahrendts

Attitude Brand Luxury You Mean Just

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Life Father Mother Woman Silly Why

Life comes full circle.

Life Circle Full

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

Work Freedom Dictatorship Want Jail

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Jean Baudrillard

Dreams Wish Statistics Fulfillment

I have on my bookshelf a book called 'Movie Monsters' by Alan Ormsby, a kids' book I got when I was in kindergarten. It started there.

Jason Henderson

Book Kindergarten Monsters Started

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

Good Me Writing Start Bag Long

When you grow up in New Orleans, like, the only way to be an artist is to be a 55-year-old black musician. That's basically what we wanted to be. If you had asked me very truthfully what I wanted to be when I was 16, the answer would've been, 'I want to be a 55-year-old black musician.'

Me Black Grow You Artist New

I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally.

Christopher Paolini

Grateful People Writing Reading Been

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