Willie Dixon

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Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1915-07-01

Active to

1992-01-29

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Willie Dixon (born July 1, 1915, Vicksburg, Miss., U.S.-died Jan. 29, 1992, Burbank, Calif.) was a U.S. musician who influenced the emergence of electric blues and rock music. In 1936 Dixon moved from his native Mississippi to Chicago, won an Illinois Golden Gloves boxing championship, and began selling his songs. He played double bass in several bands before joining Chess Records. His lively compositions, which he sold for as little as $30, included “Little Red Rooster <a href="https://www.last

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Quotes

• “I am the bluesI am the bluesThe whole world knowsI've been mistreated and misused.”
• “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.”
• “That's the reason I always say about music, the blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. Without the roots, you have no fruits so it's better keeping the roots alive because it means better fruits from now on.”
• “The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.”
• “Some people think they've got religion, they've got the blues.”

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