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. Alexis Korner Read Quote
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music. Alexis Korner Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Alexis Korner Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Alexis Korner Read Quote
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. Alexis Korner Read Quote
