Alexis Korner Quotations

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

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 given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

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 sort of jazz.

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 I wasn't improvising.