Music Quotes by Alexis Korner

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

— Alexis Korner

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

— Alexis Korner

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

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

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

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

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

— Alexis Korner

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

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

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

— Alexis Korner

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

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

— Alexis Korner