Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon
William James "Willie" Dixonwas an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the upright bass and the guitar and as a vocalist, he is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time. Next to Muddy Waters, Dixon is recognized as the most influential person in shaping the post–World War II sound of the Chicago blues...
ProfessionBlues Singer
Date of Birth1 July 1915
CityVicksburg, MS
blues heard sing woman
My God, I never heard a woman sing the blues like you sing the blues,
roots american-music
The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.
mean roots long
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 blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.
biblical men blue
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 man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.
roots fruit
The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.
sadness blue making-love
I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.
live-life giving mind
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 give. I live the life I love and I love the life I live.
roots fruit
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits