Alexis Korner
Alexis Korner
Alexis Kornerwas a British blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a founding father of British blues". A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth19 April 1928
jazz my-family left
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
pain people want
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
schizophrenia form beneficial
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
winter development movement
The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.
musical movement incentives
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.
becoming reason logical
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.
play schizophrenic dominant
I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
way musician bloody
I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.
men player jazz
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.
phrases use worried
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.
age tables dinner
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.
play important records
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.
children shows finished
Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.
thinking musical age
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.