American music Quote by Willie Dixon Download Open image “The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.” — Willie Dixon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare American music Blues Blues Blues Blues Roots Funny Inspirational Love Music Roots Roots American
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… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always… — Gary Clark, Jr Copy Share Image
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
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… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
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,… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
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… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
“Well, long way from home and, Can't sleep at all. You know another mule, Is kickin in your stall.” — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
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… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I’d probably pay good money to get… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep… — Burt Bacharach Copy Share Image
I'm more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music. It was… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when… — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
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