Ruth Brown famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Ruth Brown

#Song #Done #Needs
The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.
-- Ruth Brown

#Next #Sides #Argument
I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
-- Ruth Brown

#Trying #Sound
I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
-- Ruth Brown

#Church #Stage #Streets
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.
-- Ruth Brown

#Kings #Years #People
When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
-- Ruth Brown

#Dukes #Applause #Stood Up
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
-- Ruth Brown

#Different #Green
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
-- Ruth Brown

#Forever #Trying #Prove
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.
-- Ruth Brown

#Years #Singing #Documentaries
Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.
-- Ruth Brown

#Butterfly #Positive Thinking #Life Is Like
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
-- Ruth Brown

#Flower #Foxes

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