You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else’s agenda. You want to write something that’s poignant and moves people. Dion DiMucci Read Quote
Early on, I tried to sing, but sustaining a note was something I wasn’t comfortable with. So I tried to get off of the note as soon as I could. Dion DiMucci Read Quote
The point here is that I enjoyed singing. I enjoyed the rhythm of it. I grew up listening to Louis Prima, who was also rhythmic. Dion DiMucci Read Quote
Music is an expression. It’s almost like a diary in my life, you know. You express your perceptions and your view on life – your world view. Dion DiMucci Read Quote
The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our – anything you want to express. And it helps you get it out instead of it spiraling inward, and you’re getting twisted up and exploding. So it’s a bit of salvation. Dion DiMucci Read Quote
I got one of the best sax players in the business – Arno Hecht. He plays with the Uptown Horns and all the great blues bands. He expresses the heart of the Apollo Theatre, let me tell you. Dion DiMucci Read Quote
I don’t sing white; I don’t sing black – I sing Bronx. When I sing ‘Ruby Baby,’ I’m rolling like Jimmy Reed. I wanted to communicate like Hank Williams and groove like Jimmy Reed. Dion DiMucci Read Quote
I grew up with my parents screaming and yelling at each other for the rent in Bronx, New York City at the time. It was $36. So my mind hadn’t stretched out to that place where I could spend a whole month’s rent on a 45-minute plane flight to Fargo, N.D. Dion DiMucci Read Quote
My definition of the blues is the naked cry of the human heart longing to be in union with God. Dion DiMucci Read Quote
