Willie Dixon famous quotes

03-28-2025

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.
-- Willie Dixon

#Roots
A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.
-- Willie Dixon
It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.
-- Willie Dixon

#Song #Soul #Gold
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.
-- Willie Dixon

#Mean #Roots #Long
According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.
-- Willie Dixon

#Biblical #Men #Blue
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding.
-- Willie Dixon

#Song #Feelings #Understanding
I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.
-- Willie Dixon

#Years #Singing #Church
Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.
-- Willie Dixon

#Beautiful #Musician #Moses
The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.
-- Willie Dixon

#Roots #Fruit
The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.
-- Willie Dixon

#Song #Ignorance #Evil
The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.
-- Willie Dixon

#America #Foundation
I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.
-- Willie Dixon

#Sadness #Blue #Making Love
I see you watching me like a hawk. I don't mind about the things you talk. But if you touch me something's got to give. I live the life I love and I love the life I live.
-- Willie Dixon

#Live Life #Giving #Mind
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits
-- Willie Dixon

#Roots #Fruit
People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.
-- Willie Dixon

#Believe #People #Facts

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