Ruth Brown quotes

Ruth Brown quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

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

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

#Church Quotes #Stage Quotes #Streets Quotes
“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 Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes
“When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.”
-- Ruth Brown

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

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

#Forever Quotes #Trying Quotes #Prove Quotes
“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 Quotes #Singing Quotes #Documentaries Quotes
“Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.”
-- Ruth Brown

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

#Flower Quotes #Foxes Quotes

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