Willie Dixon

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song inspiration feeling and understanding.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. Its 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.