Alexis Korner Quotes

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I know music. I grew up in Philly; it's a very musical city. My house was full of music.

I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.

I grew up in Southern California. I played in rock bands out here, and I've been around pop music my whole life. I've been around all music my entire life.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea.

I know girls like musicians!

Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

It's VH1, it's everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.