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Alexis Korner Quotes
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family. - Alexis Korner Quotes
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldnt have had the incentive to start playing without it. - Alexis Korner Quotes
I cant explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do. - Alexis Korner Quotes
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. - Alexis Korner Quotes
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I dont suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so. - Alexis Korner Quotes
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me cant play is the dominant one. - Alexis Korner Quotes
I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt. - Alexis Korner Quotes
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz. - Alexis Korner Quotes
Im a compulsive musician, but its also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else. - Alexis Korner Quotes
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasnt worried that I wasnt improvising. - Alexis Korner Quotes
In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I cant say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues. - Alexis Korner Quotes
In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone. - Alexis Korner Quotes
Once you became associated with a childrens show, youre finished. - Alexis Korner Quotes
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music. - Alexis Korner Quotes
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality. - Alexis Korner Quotes
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. - Alexis Korner Quotes
When I reflect on how things have changed, I cant help but laugh. - Alexis Korner Quotes
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