Ruth Brown Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

In those days, as I always tell B.B and Buddy Guy and these guys and gave them a place to cry like a man without having to do it.

We have paid a price to sing this music.

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

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

There are stories that people don`t want to talk about that brought this music through.

There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stuff.