1.
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
2.
Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.
Ruth Brown
3.
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
Ruth Brown
4.
The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.
Ruth Brown
5.
When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
Ruth Brown
6.
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
7.
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
8.
Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.
Ruth Brown
9.
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
Ruth Brown
10.
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
Ruth Brown
11.
I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
Ruth Brown
12.
I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
Ruth Brown
