Willie Dixon: Blue

Willie Dixon was American blues musician. Explore interesting quotes on blue.

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“That's the reason I always say about music, the blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. Without the roots, you have no fruits so it's better keeping the roots alive because it means better fruits from now on.”

I am the Blues: the Willie Dixon Story‎ (with Don Snowden, 1990), p. 4.

“Some people think they've got religion, they've got the blues.”

According to Memphis Slim in the song "Blues is troubles".
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“The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.”

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“I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.”

"I Am The Blues" (Hoochie Coochie Music/Arc Music, 1969), reported in I am the Blues: the Willie Dixon Story‎ (with Don Snowden, 1990), p. 1.

“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.”

I am the Blues: the Willie Dixon Story‎ (with Don Snowden, 1990), p. 2.