Alexis Korner Quotes

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• When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.
• Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
• I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
• The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
• 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.
• 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…
• I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
• I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.
• 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…
• 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 that…
• 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…
• 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 to…
• Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.
• Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
• 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…
• I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.
• I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

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