Ruth Brown Quotes

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

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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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• A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

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

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

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

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

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Ruth Brown (12)

Birth:	12th January, 1928
Death:	17th November, 2006
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

Ruth Brown was an American singer-songwriter and actress also known as "Queen of R&B" noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "He Treats Your Daughter Mean".

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