"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up……" — Ruth Brown
"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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Ruth Brown
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15 Quotes by Ruth Brown
Ruth Brown has 15 quotes on this site.
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A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
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All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far…
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There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the…
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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
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But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
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When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary…
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I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
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I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
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Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.
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If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era…
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Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I…
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I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.
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