Alexis Korner

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

— Alexis Korner

#blues #family #jazz #left #me

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. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#big enough #enough #every #good #had

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

— Alexis Korner

#i #onto #other #pain #particular

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

— Alexis Korner

#beneficial #blues #both #form #guess

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. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#always #becoming #blues #could #ever

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

— Alexis Korner

#dominant #hears #heavily #i #life

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

— Alexis Korner

#guitar #hurt #i #make #music

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. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#blues #considered #i #jazz #man

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

— Alexis Korner

#anything #bloody #compulsive #else #good

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. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#effect #every #every time #i #improvising