Ruth Brown Quotations

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

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

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.

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.

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

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

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.

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.

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

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.

She's another Tina Turner is what I see,

I did it by sneaking out at home to get on the ferryboat and get over to Norfolk.

I was like the queen of the South.

We have paid a price to sing this music.

Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays.

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

I traveled all through the deep South, but I was not getting on the big TV shows.

It works both ways. If they both want to play, they both should pay for it.

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.

I remember singing in a warehouse where there was no stage and I sung on the top of a tobacco truck and there was a clothesline between the races on the floor, and when the music got too good, the clothesline feel down where everybody was dancing in the same place and they pulled me off the stage and took me to jail for singing it.

All three of us came from the Tidewater area (in Virginia).

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

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

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

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