Ruth Brown Quotes

#1. I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

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#2. Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

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#3. I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

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#4. But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

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#5. There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.

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#6. We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

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#7. When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

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#8. The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

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#9. There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

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#10. I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.

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#11. If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

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#12. All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

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#13. When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

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#14. A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

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#15. Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

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#16. Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.

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