Top 17 Quotes by Alexis Korner

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.