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Alvin Lee

"He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!"

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"He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!"

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Donna Grant

"Eye Contact. Direct eye contact is one of the best compliments you can give to another. You are subliminally telling them that you are listening, they matter, and that what they have to say is important."

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Donna Grant

"For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common."

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Donna Grant

"I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget."

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Donna Grant

"I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment."

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Donna Grant

"He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!"

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Donna Grant

"I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man."

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Donna Grant

"Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them."

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Donna Grant

"I can't simulate you with moon, moon is fully naked and you are fully clothed."

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Donna Grant

"Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around."

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Donna Grant

"When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'"

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Alvin Lee
"We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised."

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Alvin Lee
"I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig."

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Alvin Lee
"Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it."

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Alvin Lee
"Back in those days we thought we could change the world."

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Alvin Lee
"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 quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!"

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Alvin Lee
"He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!"

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Alvin Lee
"I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics."

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Alvin Lee
"I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school."

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Alvin Lee
"Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books."

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

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