Korner Quotes

#1. From my big beautiful warlock brain, welcome to 'Sheen's Korner' ... You're either in my corner, or you're with the trolls.

Charlie Sheen

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

Alexis Korner

#3. You should not expect your dreams to become a reality if you do not do something about it.

Kindle Korner

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

Alexis Korner

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

Alexis Korner

#6. 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

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

Alexis Korner

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#11. 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.

Alexis Korner

#12. If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life.

Debasish Mridha

#13. 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

#14. 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.

Alexis Korner

#15. Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

Lionel Blue

#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.

Alexis Korner

#17. If you feel besieged by life today, lean on the God of peace - the God of hope and the future. The same God who has a plan for Israel has a plan for you. Trust that He will direct your path.

David Jeremiah

#18. The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

Thomas Paine

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

Alexis Korner

#20. Some people simply seem to know how to live. They know when to seize the day, when to go with the flow, and when to row for dear life.

Nel Newman

#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.

Alexis Korner

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

Alexis Korner

#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.

Alexis Korner

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

Alexis Korner

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

Alexis Korner