Life is Quotes by Ruth Brown

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

— Ruth Brown

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

— Ruth Brown

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

— Ruth Brown

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

— Ruth Brown

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

— Ruth Brown

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

— Ruth Brown

If I can't sell it, I'll sit on it.

— Ruth Brown

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…

— Ruth Brown

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

— Ruth Brown

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

— Ruth Brown

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing…

— Ruth Brown

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

— Ruth Brown