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Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor. ↗

— Harvey Korman

#going #got #i #out #service

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#creation #does #i #i am #itself

You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff. ↗

— Harvey Korman

#beginning #characters #conflict #end #funny

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

#big enough #enough #every #good #had

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

— Alexis Korner

#i #onto #other #pain #particular

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

#always #becoming #blues #could #ever

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

#dominant #hears #heavily #i #life

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

#anyone #between #came #days #dinner

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

— Alexis Korner

#american music #been #influenced #music #musical

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

#bar #been #blues #british #emotional