Author: Alexis Korner

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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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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