American Blues Quotes by Alexis Korner

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Alexis Korner has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• 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…
• I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose…
• I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant…
• 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…
• If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I…
• In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table…
• In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all…

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