Willie Dixon

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.

The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling and understanding. The blues can be about anything pertaining to the facts of life. The blues call on God as much as a spiritual song do.

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

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

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

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