Music Quote by Willie Dixon Download Open image ““The Bluesis the roots of all American music.”” — Willie Dixon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Music
The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source. — Anonymous 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
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 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
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music. — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
“He already had a sense of the ways in which white blues fans were unduly aroused by the supreme otherness of black, prewar blues… — Amanda Petrusich 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
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music. — Edgar Winter 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
The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music. — 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
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
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When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.' — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time. — Stromae Copy Share Image