Alexis Korner Quotes

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

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#2. Jihad - God's lawful war against nonbelievers. To drive the point home, the ambassador left Jefferson and Adams with a final image of what American sailors would face on the high

Glenn Beck

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

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#4. Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

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#5. 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.

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#6. When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

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#7. 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.

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

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. We are not alone.
The spirits of those gone before guide our steps,our traditions,our beliefs.
We are not alone.
The care of those around us leads us to healing and wholeness and comfort.
Mohawk/Onondaga Healer

Lorraine Carey

#12. 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.

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#13. I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

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#14. No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.

Peter Kreeft

#15. I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.

Parker J. Palmer

#16. 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.

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#17. Sometimes we just have to stop and feel the pulse of the Earth, the rhythm of the seasons and the internal voice that was once our childhood friend.

Fennel Hudson

#18. The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

Harold Nicolson

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

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#20. Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision. - Bob Proctor

Bob Proctor

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

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

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