The British feel of blues has been hard, rather th... -Alexis Korner

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 , Musician
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Alexis Korner was a British blues musician and radio broadcaster. He is considered one of the founding fathers of British blues and played a significant role in popularizing the genre in the UK. Korner's musical contributions, both as a performer and a promoter, influenced subsequent generations of musicians and helped shape the British blues scene. His legacy as a pioneer of British blues remains influential in the world of music.

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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 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....
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 wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt....
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family....
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....
I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else....
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do....
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 fo...
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 improvisi...

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If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun....
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal....
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident....
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination....
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions....
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been o...
No sanction can stand against ignited minds....
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me....
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities....
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want....