Ruth Brown Quotes

"But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now."
- Ruth Brown
(Related: Now)

"I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage."
- Ruth Brown
(Related: Church)

"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."
- Ruth Brown
(Related: Thought, Sound)

"I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time."
- Ruth Brown
(Related: Time, Holiday, Trying, Voice)

"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."
- Ruth Brown
(Related: Singing, Songs, Talking, Years)

"There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through."
- Ruth Brown
(Related: Music, People, Talk, Want)

"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
(Related: Time, Songs)

"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
(Related: People, Years)

"We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues."
- Ruth Brown
(Related: Trying)

"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers."
- Ruth Brown
(Related: Flowers)

"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."
- Ruth Brown
(Related: Music, Reason, Sun)