Ruth Brown Quotes

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

• Songs
• Own
• ERA

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

Ruth Brown

• Green
• Now
• Blues

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

Ruth Brown

• Best
• Find
• Sound

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

Ruth Brown

• Stage
• Sang
• Church Street

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

• People
• Together
• Place

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

• Believe
• Place
• Young

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

Ruth Brown

• Trying
• Voice
• Billie Holiday

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

Ruth Brown

• People
• Stories
• Talk

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

• Time
• Blues
• Background

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

Ruth Brown

• Forever
• Lives
• Blues