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17 quotes by Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner Alexis Korner & Snape, Musikhalle Hamburg, November 1972 Background information Birth name Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner Also known as "Father of British Blues" Born (1928-04-19)19 April 1928 Paris, France Died 1 January 1984(1984-01-01) (aged 55) Westminster, London Genres Blues, blues rock Occupations Musician songwriter historian broadcaster Instruments Vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, Dobro, tiple, piano Years...
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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.

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

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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... →

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I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

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

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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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I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

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The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

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