Korner Quotes & Sayings

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music. — Alexis Korner

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. — Alexis Korner

I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting. — Tim Daly

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh. — Alexis Korner

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt. — Alexis Korner

Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are a diminished standard of living, higher labor costs, less competitive prices, and more inflation. — Robert S. Strauss

Even if the carriage lamps are repaired," Lord Ravenswood said, "it's not safe for you to leave tonight. And a few hours won't make much difference to your investigation."
"I told him that," said Tristian, "but my fool of a brother is obsessed with avoiding Miss Vernon's questions, and he thinks he can only manage that by staying ahead of our party."
"Ah," the viscount said.
Jane dug her fingers into her palms. After their intimacies last night, she'd thought they might have some chance together, but he only shared his body with her. Everything else he kept secret.
You're the one hiding here in the corner, her conscience said.
Yes, because it was her only way around the tight-lipped devil. — Sabrina Jeffries

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about. — Dallas Willard

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

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished. — Alexis Korner

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). — David Mamet

I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me. — Noel Gallagher

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

The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able chemists, is beginning to be abandoned and forgotten; and one can predict that the day is not far in the future when a sufficient collection of facts will permit determination of the internal architecture of molecules. A series of experiments directed toward such a goal is the object of this paper. — Wilhelm Korner

I admire those believers who speak of such things with the same aplomb as if the'd just split a beer with God in the cabin next door. — Sylvain Tesson

When you're scalded, touch hurts, it makes no difference if it's kindly meant. Now — Marilynne Robinson

I love you more than anybody in the world ... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams. — Dylan Thomas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family. — Alexis Korner

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother. — Rodney Dangerfield