Alexis Korner Quotes
Alexis Korner Quotes
- 1
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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- 2
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
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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.
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- 4
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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- 5
I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.
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- 6
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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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.
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- 8
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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- 9
Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.
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- 10
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
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- 11
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.
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- 12
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
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- 13
When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.
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