Willie Dixon Quotes

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On the seventh hour On the seventh day On the seventh month The seventh doctor say He was born for good luck And that you'll see I got seven hundred dollars Don't you mess with me

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

Willie Dixon
Men lies about that,
Some of 'em cries about that,
Some of 'em dies about that,
Everybody fightin' about a spoonful,
That spoon, that spoon, that.

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

Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.

Willie Dixon
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
I'm gonna make you girls
Lead me by the hand
Then the world will know
The Hoochie Coochie Man
But you know I'm here
Everybody knows I'm here.

Willie Dixon
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