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

- 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 ma…

- Willie Dixon

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 w…

- Willie Dixon

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 blu…

- Willie Dixon

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

- Willie Dixon

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

- 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 b…

- Willie Dixon

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

- Willie Dixon

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

- Willie Dixon