Willie Dixon

“The whole world is a slave, some is a slave to the bottle, and some to the women, and some to the money.”

“The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits.”

“Blues is the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.”

“The blues is a feeling, you can't get it out of a book.”

“I feel that the blues is actually the mother of all American music.”

“A song is a story, and if you can't tell the story, you're not singing the song.”

“I was born with the blues... It's a part of me.”

“Everything that you do in your everyday life is the blues.”

“I ain't no poet, but I know that the world's in a hell of a fix.”

“When you get to the place where you're not afraid to fail, you can do anything.”

“If you don't have something to live for, you don't have nothing to die for.”