26 Quotes by Alexis Korner

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

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

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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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