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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/people-have-been-brainwashed-into-believing-that-it-s-got-to-be-down/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-dixon/)

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## Other authors on Brainwashed

## More by Willie Dixon

> [“The Bluesis the roots of all American music.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/the-bluesis-the-roots-of-all-american-music/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-dixon/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/the-whole-of-life-itself-expresses-the-blues-that-s-why-i-always-say/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-dixon/)

> [The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/the-blues-is-the-roots-the-rest-is-the-fruits/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-dixon/)

> [The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/the-blues-are-the-true-facts-of-life-expressed-in-words-and-song/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-dixon/)

> [The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/the-blues-has-been-the-foundation-of-all-other-american-music-since/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-dixon/)

> [The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/the-blues-will-always-be-because-the-blues-are-the-roots-of-all/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-dixon/)

> [A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/a-bad-rendition-of-you-is-better-than-a-good-rendition-of-somebody/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-dixon/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/the-world-has-made-everything-else-and-still-it-can-t-make-peace-and/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/people-have-been-brainwashed-into-believing-that-it-s-got-to-be-down/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/sonny-boy-williamson-ii-was-a-beautiful-guy-a-straight-guy-but-he-was/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-dixon/)

> [“Well, long way from home and, Can't sleep at all. You know another mule, Is kickin in your stall.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/well-long-way-from-home-and-can-t-sleep-at-all-you-know-another-mule/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-dixon/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/i-see-you-watching-me-like-a-hawk-i-don-t-mind-about-the-things-you/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-dixon/)

> [The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/the-blues-are-the-true-facts-of-life-expressed-in-words-and-song-2/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/according-to-biblical-history-and-all-of-the-history-of-the-world-the/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-dixon/i-hadn-t-been-exposed-to-music-except-in-church-they-used-to-have-me/)

[Willie Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-dixon/)

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