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

Willie Dixon

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Willie Dixon
Age: 76 †
Born: 1915
Born: July 1
Died: 1992
Died: January 29
Blues Musician
Boxer
Musician
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Vicksburg
Mississippi
William James Dixon
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Blues
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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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The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.
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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.
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I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.
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The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.
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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.
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A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.
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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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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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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.
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