Alexis Korner Quotes & Sayings

17 most famous Alexis Korner quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an Australian musician who passed away on 1 January, 1984.

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“I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.”

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

“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 little originality.”

“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 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.”

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

“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 do was play the blues.”

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

“Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.”

“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.”

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