Ruth Brown Quotes

15 quotes in 185 categories

• A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
• All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.
• 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,…
• We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
• But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
• When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
• 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…
• I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
• I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
• Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.
• 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…
• 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…
• I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.
• If I can't sell it, I'll sit on it.
• There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

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