Alvin Lee Quotes

I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar.

Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

I don't see music as working.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

Making music is fantastic.

I'm a struggling guitar player.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

Music is such an important part of my life.

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

I think music all the time.