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> [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 have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/i-had-always-intended-to-make-a-living-out-of-playing-blues-but-i/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-korner/)

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## More by Alexis Korner

> [I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/i-wanted-to-be-able-to-play-guitar-i-wanted-to-be-able-to-make-music/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-korner/)

> [When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/when-i-reflect-on-how-things-have-changed-i-can-t-help-but-laugh/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/i-must-have-been-heavily-schizophrenic-all-my-life-the-me-who-hears/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/the-british-feel-of-blues-has-been-hard-rather-than-emotional-far-too/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/i-was-considered-as-a-jazz-man-rather-than-as-a-blues-player-there/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/every-musical-movement-that-is-big-enough-has-to-produce-some-good/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-korner/)

> [I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/i-m-a-compulsive-musician-but-it-s-also-a-bloody-good-way-out-of/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/i-had-always-intended-to-make-a-living-out-of-playing-blues-but-i/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/i-guess-music-particularly-the-blues-is-the-only-form-of/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-korner/)

> [Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/since-the-age-of-12-all-my-musical-thinking-has-been-influenced-by/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/if-the-same-phrase-in-the-same-place-created-the-right-effect-i-was/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-korner/)

> [Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/once-you-became-associated-with-a-children-s-show-you-re-finished/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-korner/)

> [Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/blues-and-jazz-pulled-me-away-from-what-was-left-of-my-family/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-korner/)

> [In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/in-those-days-between-the-ages-of-12-and-18-you-meant-nothing-you/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-korner/)

> [In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-korner/in-1940-i-came-across-a-record-by-jimmy-yancey-i-can-t-say-how/)

[Alexis Korner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-korner/)

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