The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
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… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music. — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
