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 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
