Top 17 Quotes by Alexis Korner

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

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

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

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

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.

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.

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