Ruth Brown Quotes

• 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, Needs, Done

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• The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

  Ruth Brown

  Next, Sides, Argument

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• Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

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  Butterfly, Positive Thinking, Life Is Like

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• A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

  Ruth Brown

  Flower, Foxes

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• Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

  Ruth Brown

  Thinking, Want, Remember

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

  Ruth Brown

  Forever, Trying, Prove

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• 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, Singing, Done

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• But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

  Ruth Brown

  Different, Green, Courses

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

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  Dukes, Applause, Stood Up

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

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  Church, Stage, Streets

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

  Ruth Brown

  Trying, Sound, Best Things

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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.

  Ruth Brown

  Kings, Years, People

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