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.
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. - Alexis Korner
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
- Alexis Korner
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. - Alexis Korner
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.
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 improvis… - Alexis Korner
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 improvis…
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
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. - Alexis Korner
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.
Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished. - Alexis Korner
Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.
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
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 f… - Alexis Korner
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 f…
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do. - Alexis Korner
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
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