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

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

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 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

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

- 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.

- Alexis Korner

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

- 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…

- Alexis Korner