Alvin Lee Quotes

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something, I wouldn't have spoken.

When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

We are here to make another world.

All I want to do is change the world.

I'm trying to change the world.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

At some point, Twitter hash tags are not enough. Eventually, you have to stand up.

In your late teens and early twenties, everything is idealism. Everything should just work in black and white. That's good. You need that. I think most revolutions are started by people in their teens and twenties.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?