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Willie Dixon
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“I am the blues I am the blues The whole world knows I've been mistreated and misused.”
Willie Dixon (1915–1992) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Willie Dixon (1915–1992) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I am the Blues: the Willie Dixon Story (with Don Snowden, 1990), p. 2.
“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.”
Willie Dixon (1915–1992) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I am the Blues: the Willie Dixon Story (with Don Snowden, 1990), p. 4.