Alex Chilton

Musician

1950-12-28 – 2010-03-17

Alex Chilton was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for work with The Box Tops and the influential band Big Star.

Quotes by Alex Chilton

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.
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I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.
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It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.
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