Alvin Lee
Related My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding. HOZIER I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby... HOZIER My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro... HOZIER I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, ... OTIS RUSH I think I heard the name Muddy Waters first, then John Lee Hooker. HERBIE HANCOCK I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix. EDDIE MONEY I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix. EDDIE MONEY I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, a... DICKEY BETTS Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also... ALEX CLARE HUGH LAURIE ERIC CLAPTON When I was a young lad, I listened to Cream,GREG KOCH ERIC CLAPTON Cody and Luther were kids in high school who used to come to the juke joint and sit in the corner, p... JASON RICCI B. B. KING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz. HOZIER I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over... HOZIER Albert won't be happy with me saying this, but I don't think he's quite the burner that Freddie was.... BRIAN FERENTZ I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played... ALEXIS KORNER Eddie Kirkland played with John Lee Hooker for a number of years on all his major recordings, so he ... MARK CAMARIGG I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. JOHNNY RAMONE My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i... TONY IOMMI I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown. L'WREN SCOTT So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to th... SONNY TERRY I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show w... ANDY GRIFFITH James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they wou... CHARLIE HADEN PAT METHENY I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and... BOZ SCAGGS I listen to all types of music. I have been in Memphis recently, so I've been listening to some blue... BENICIO DEL TORO RAY CHARLES JIMMY PAGE JIMMY PAGE Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family. ALEXIS KORNER We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers. BUTCH TRUCKS ETTA JAMES But my big thing was always the blues. LUTHER ALLISON ROBERT CRAY I'm probably the only guy in the world who's played with Lightning Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Hendrix, D... ELVIN BISHOP I was having a nap by the swimming pool and was awoken by this huge hand holding my wrist. I looked ... DAVID ENGLISH I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ... JACKIE DESHANNON My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around m... MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this... GEORGE EZRA My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as ... JONNY LANG JACK NICHOLSON JACK NICHOLSON I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz a... RICHIE HAVENS One of the best moments of my life was when 'Dorian Blues' was playing across Times Square from 'The... LESLIE ELLIARD FREDDIE MERCURY He picked cotton, he drove tractors, he worked the fields, and he never finished high school. B.B. p... BARBARA MAY People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B... P. J. HARVEY RUSSELL WESTBROOK BRITTANY HOWARD My work with Terry Riley sparked all kinds of musical ideas, ... I wanted some vehicle that could en... GEORGE BROOKS B. B. KING It was like Frank Sinatra. He was so popular because he was a storyteller, and it was the same thing... MARCUS BELGRAVE All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. MOSE ALLISON There's only two people in blues who have names like that. There's B.B. King and Buddy Guy. But Budd... AL BRICKER TIM CAHILL That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music. DOMINIC SUCHYTA I did this movie with Spike Lee called 'Sucker Free City,' and that would have to be my favo... ANTHONY MACKIE In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for t... NELLIE MCKAY All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. MOSE ALLISON STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL [Lee] values how much he was provided exposure early on by Bill Darden and others. CLARENCE OTIS I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and r... WOLFMAN JACK I was at a gas pump the other day when a man came up to me and thanked me for starting four black pl... BRUCE LARSON JASON STATHAM I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jim... STEVEN ADLER When I'd hear something that sounded like I could follow it - most of those big band jazz tunes ... JOHNNY GIMBLE I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike L... MARK DUPLASS I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals... ERNEST J. GAINES SUGAR RAY LEONARD The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, m... JOOLS HOLLAND She got 24 against Lee. I talked to the Lee coach (Bill Boyd), and he said they just couldn't handle... HARRY MASCH I liked all music when I was a kid: blues, rock 'n' roll, country and reggae. I don't think I can pl... GEORGE THOROGOOD TOM PETTY B. B. KING In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomp... JELLY ROLL MORTON REX TILLERSON I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship... ADRIAN MITCHELL FELIX DENNIS IAN ANDERSON LADY GAGA PETE TOWNSHEND My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show th... LENNIE JAMES TRUMAN CAPOTE Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things. RAY DAVIES It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time with the right stuff. There was this g... ELVIN BISHOP Freddie and the England boys will all be coming along. IAN BOTHAM The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY Desperate Housewives. AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY
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ALVIN WYATT We're growing accustomed to him doing the things that he does. ALVIN WYATT He was OK. We just didn't get it done. We [changed quarterbacks] for a change of pace. ALVIN WYATT We have lots of speed. It's tough to run in those conditions. Once the rain started, it was a bad fi... ALVIN WYATT I'm probably the only person loyal to the bone to my alma mater. I don't want to go anywhere. I'm ju... ALVIN WYATT Playing against a former coach has nothing to do with it. We do it the same way whether we're playin... ALVIN WYATT They're showing improvement. They got better. You can see the difference between the Virginia State ... ALVIN WYATT (Russell) did a fantastic job. ALVIN WYATT The officer sees the suspect reach under the passenger seat (and) fearing for his own safety that th... ALVIN WRIGHT The officer draws his weapon and warned the suspect to put his hands up in the air and get down on t... ALVIN WRIGHT The investigation is still ongoing right now. ALVIN WRIGHT She was talking. She was alert but in pain. ALVIN WRIGHT They're a great athletic team. Next time, we'll be ready for them. ALVIN WRIGHT The folks who are here from New Orleans, we know the majority of them are law abiding citizens. We k... ALVIN WRIGHT These are rivalries that have been going on for a number of years. They were doing the same thing in... ALVIN WRIGHT Whatever crap they were doing in New Orleans, they're doing here. ALVIN WRIGHT I'm not sure where we would put all of them. ALVIN WRIGHT There are a lot of people who waited a lot of years to become citizens. These people just walked acr... ALVIN WILLIAMS It's wasn't a great winning atmosphere, but [it was] as far as the team sticking together. And I thi... ALVIN WILLIAMS He's a professional, he's been in tough situations. I'm sure this is just something he'll work throu... ALVIN WILLIAMS There's a lingering perception among African American voters that the Republican Party is not intere... ALVIN WILLIAMS I think it will hurt. ALVIN WILLIAMS I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here... ALVIN WILLIAMS The market did not go very far in either direction due to continuing uncertainty over Chen's final d... ALVIN TENG The market extended yesterday's decline as it took its lead from the overnight losses on Wall Street... ALVIN TENG Simply put, there is no reason to buy shares aggressively at this point. ALVIN TENG For those who monitor market charts, a pull-back to around 6,400-6,500 points, or the 72-day moving ... ALVIN TENG There was not enough enthusiasm about pushing the upside as too many investors were ready to pocket ... ALVIN TENG As in the previous session, there were a handful of star stocks that were not strong enough to ignit... ALVIN TENG Companies with solid fundamentals attracted buying interest but we have to be more careful now. ALVIN TENG Our whole objective was to have the FBI come in and lead an investigation. We will know the truth. ALVIN SYKES The Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act that is before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives has ... ALVIN SYKES The FBI originally thought he was one of the three. ALVIN SYKES One of them was convicted just three months ago. In all, 18 were tried. Seven were convicted of Civi... ALVIN SYKES At our request, we have asked the federal government to create a unit on unsolved Civil Rights murde... ALVIN SYKES Already around the world, Philadelphia means something different than it did a month ago. You see it... ALVIN SYKES Joyce Chiles made this a real investigation with real consequences. ALVIN SYKES I did not know there were people you could go to for help. ALVIN SYKES If it was good enough for Kennedy, and it was good enough for King, it was good enough for Emmett Ti... ALVIN SYKES Like it was, wow, this woman has spent the equivalent of my lifetime pursuing this one thing. ALVIN SYKES I'm sorry for everything. What happened shouldn't have happened. I wish it would have been me that g... ALVIN STARKS You can laugh, but I will get the last laugh. ALVIN STARKS I want your ... brothers and so on to kill my so-called family and friends. (T)hat's the whole purpo... ALVIN STARKS I don't want to test God's grace thinking if I kill someone that I can ask for forgiveness and still... ALVIN STARKS It's a big, nice venue. Really exciting to play in. I'm just interested in seeing how loud we can ge... ALVIN SMITH If I can notch up like two or three sacks, that would be a whole lot better than fumble recoveries. ALVIN SMITH The chances today are better than they were in the past. I still think there are some barriers we wo... ALVIN SMITH I'll try to hold my hands still so it don't slip off, ALVIN SMITH No, it won't hold a knot, ALVIN SMITH A good knot on a bad rope is no better than a bad knot, ALVIN SMITH That's not a good rope, ALVIN SMITH It's going to be a gritty, nasty, physical game. What wins games for Cal is the running backs and th... ALVIN SMITH It's a big, nice venue. Really exciting to play in. I'm just interested in seeing how loud we can ge... ALVIN SMITH Football is a game that's played with intensity and passion. If your opponent determines how hard yo... ALVIN SMITH I love being around my mom, my brother, my sister and my step-dad. I love to sit outside on those co... ALVIN SIMMONS When I am not playing baseball I like to sleep and hang out with my friends playing Xbox. ALVIN SIMMONS I love playing baseball man. I am always playing baseball and I definitely want to play in college. ALVIN SIMMONS I am going to Gulf Shores to spend the week with some friends. But I can't go until Tuesday night be... ALVIN SIMMONS You need to keep the attachment to provide the safety. But you also need to slowly, as they're ready... ALVIN ROSENFELD This country really is very culturally diverse. Some may say 'diverse' has become a hackneyed word b... ALVIN ROSENFELD American culture, including its literature, has been enriched over many decades by the work of its i... ALVIN ROSENFELD We see more stomachaches and kids get all kids of fancy workups to see if they have an ulcer. ALVIN ROSENFELD Kids get burned out. The last thing you want to do is to have someone going into high school who is ... ALVIN ROSENFELD I think that the culture in the United States is to push people until they drop and now we're doing ... ALVIN ROSENFELD They want to spend more time with their parents. ALVIN POUSSAINT Black people are brown, light yellow and all different colors in the United States. White men create... ALVIN POUSSAINT I think you need to explain what the term means and that it's a mean and derogatory term. And then y... ALVIN POUSSAINT They were afraid if the children were not very obedient they would get in trouble with white people ... ALVIN POUSSAINT He was the man of the match. He understands this game well, and he came out ready to play today. ALVIN JAMES We're just looking at this as another step to the final four. We're talking like this is another sto... ALVIN JAMES Our record is totally misleading. We're a final four team. There is talent in this program. The one ... ALVIN JAMES I just told the referee to cut it right there. We didn't have enough players, and it was going to be... ALVIN JAMES There were some things that led to the dismal record. We had some things happen that we had no contr... ALVIN JAMES Trevor got a beautiful ball from the right side and volleyed it in. We managed to get the ball movin... ALVIN JAMES We started out a little slow, a little sluggish. I think it was because the refs weren't on time. We... ALVIN JAMES We are playing bigger 5A and 6A teams. It's all in preparation for when we play in [postseason]. It'... ALVIN JAMES We've been struggling against the bigger schools, but it will gear us up for the competition we'll f... ALVIN JAMES I actually wanted to be in the locker room on the side we used when I was with the Strikers. However... ALVIN JAMES Our nation does not surrender to blackmail. ALVIN HELLERSTEIN My task is not to defer to our worst fears, but to interpret and apply the law, in this case, the Fr... ALVIN HELLERSTEIN The CIA shall search and review in response to plaintiffs' FOIA requests, ALVIN HELLERSTEIN Indeed, the freedoms we champion are as important to our success in Iraq and Afghanistan as the guns... ALVIN HELLERSTEIN The snuffing out of sound is not a permissible exercise under the First Amendment, ALVIN HELLERSTEIN Masks have a tortured history in the United States, creating fear and fear of physical violence on t... ALVIN HELLERSTEIN As President Bush said, we fight to spread freedom so the freedoms of Americans will be made more se... ALVIN HELLERSTEIN Indeed, the freedoms we champion are as important to our success in Iraq and Afghanistan as the guns... ALVIN HELLERSTEIN It's tough to throw over Shawn Marion. If you throw it over Shawn Marion, you're probably throwing i... ALVIN GENTRY I don't know if there's another guy that you could say 'Well, he guarded Yao Ming and then the next ... ALVIN GENTRY Dan's high school used to have this shirt that said 'organized chaos,' and that's pretty much what i... ALVIN GENTRY Every night, you can pencil in 20 and 10, and now all of a sudden you can pencil in 25 and 11. That'... ALVIN GENTRY For the most part, you just have to fight through it mentally. Once you do that, you can deal with t... ALVIN GENTRY Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here. ALVIN GENTRY They'd come in and he'd already have a full sweat going. He definitely set a tone going into trainin... ALVIN GENTRY Eddie House missed some shots that he's going to make. I thought he did a good job (running the offe... ALVIN GENTRY What really keeps me inspired is to get messages across. ALVIN FRANCO Everyone you've ever met is actually a part of who you are today. Even your own enemies, the ones wh... ALVIN FRANCO It's really amazing what a single act of kindness can do. Well, it's gotten me to be a lot more soci... ALVIN FRANCO It's basically my own life story as of high school. ALVIN FRANCO I'm always busy filming something -- I document everything I do, I've found out that I can put it to... ALVIN FRANCO It's like a separate body part to me, you can ask anyone in my school, they've never seen me not wit... ALVIN FRANCO ALVIN DARK ALVIN DARK ALVIN DARK ALVIN DARK ALVIN DARK ALVIN DARK ALVIN DARK ALVIN DARK The expectation in this community is so high, they'd run me out of town if I didn't make it. The atm... ALVIN COPELAND What hurt us the most was missed key rebounds and easy baskets. ALVIN COPELAND It seemed like it stayed on 33 (points) forever. The only thing that helped us was that they didn't ... ALVIN COPELAND I had some concerns with (being too confident) coming in. Sometimes you have to get teams up to play... ALVIN COPELAND It hurt us to lose by one point to Perry. I told the it would come down to that. ALVIN COPELAND The last time they beat us in the Christmas tournament, they said we played tired. We wanted to make... ALVIN COPELAND It used to upset me because I felt like she didn't care one way or another. Now I know that she care... ALVIN COPELAND Any time you hit threes, it puts you right back in the game. I told them to try and not give (Perry)... ALVIN COPELAND Anytime we jump out to a big lead is a major concern. We won, which is most important in the end. Bu... ALVIN COPELAND We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over. ALVIN COPELAND Surely the perpetrator could have just taken the car and left them unharmed? Instead an unborn child... ALVIN BEST For three-and-a-half hours the doctors tried to save baby Jenna, but it was all in vain. Later the h... ALVIN BEST David was then shot in the chest. ALVIN BEST David pleaded with the hijacker, begging him not to harm them. He repeatedly told the gunman 'We do ... ALVIN BEST The best thing is the surroundings. You're in the middle of the forest and you have a river flowing ... ALVIN ANDERSON In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for... ALVIN ANDERSON I think people area a little intimidated by it sometimes... It's basically hiking -- you're not cold... ALVIN ANDERSON You can get snow blindness if you're not careful. ALVIN ANDERSON Avalanche danger is something to consider. That's only an issue when there are steep slopes above yo... ALVIN ANDERSON The most enjoyable thing for me is having the feeling of being in pure nature where you're there and... ALVIN ANDERSON Going around the city, seeing the signs, with John Tyler and things like that, it showed us the enti... ALVIN ANDERSON When they went to the state, and came back as a state champion, then we were all sisters and brother... ALVIN ANDERSON When they came to John Tyler they were really disappointed that they had to go there and they felt r... ALVIN ANDERSON They felt like losing the school was losing the community really. ALVIN ANDERSON ALVIN AILEY ALVIN AILEY ALVIN AILEY ALVIN AILEY ALVIN AILEY ALVIN AILEY ALVIN AILEY
Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, a... 
I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and ... 
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Cha... 
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music... 
If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burt... 
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so... 
'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff. 
My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin... 
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just... 
Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be... 
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. 
It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show. 
Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up. 
Freddie Mercury inspired me when I was young. 
Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here... 
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed th... 
I was raised with traditional stories of leadership: Robert E. Lee, John Buford at Gettysburg. And I... 
I'm a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I'd want ... 
I wanted to do in boxing what Bruce Lee was able to do in karate. Lee was an artist, and, like him, ... 
When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Wat... 
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh... 
We're all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I h... 
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and l... 
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... 
Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone ... 
When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was suppose... 
We're doing John first, and then bringing out Lee. 
The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the ban... 
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden un... 
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books. 
Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be d... 
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new ... 
A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen. 
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. 
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new defi... 
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative ... 
Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And, years later te... 
I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance. 
Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world. 
No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough. 
A manager doesn't hear the cheers. 
Friendships are forgotten when the game begins. 