Author: Alexis Korner

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

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

- Alexis Korner

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

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.

- Alexis Korner

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

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

- Alexis Korner

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

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

- Alexis Korner

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

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

- Alexis Korner

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