Willie Dixon Quotes

#1. Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands ...

Tom Verlaine

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy ... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.

Willie Dixon

#5. My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.

Edgar Ramirez

#6. The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

Willie Dixon

#7. Well, long way from home and,
Can't sleep at all.
You know another mule,
Is kickin in your stall.

Willie Dixon

#8. The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

Willie Dixon

#9. Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating lies, untold violence. Bold, brash stories about reclaiming our bodies and changing the world.

Eli Clare

#10. The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

Willie Dixon

#11. I box two to three times a week. I don't like going to the gym because it's boring. I really like boxing because you have to combine concentration and imagination. I feel like I'm actually learning something that's useful.

Stephanie Sigman

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. of experience at the Privy Council Office who was hired to be an editor of the French translation but ended up being a primary editor of the entire report. I headed

Kevin Page

#15. The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

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#16. What is it with you and throwing husbands off of the roof?

M.J. Hahn

#17. It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

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#18. 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.

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#19. I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

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#20. 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.

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#21. The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

Robert Rodriguez

#22. Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

Willie Dixon

#23. A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

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#24. Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.

Willie Dixon

#25. 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