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.

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• Ruth Brown:

  If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particu

• Ruth Brown:

  There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because

• Ruth Brown:

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

• Ruth Brown:

  Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine;

• Ruth Brown:

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

• Ruth Brown:

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

• Ruth Brown:

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

• Ruth Brown:

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

• Ruth Brown:

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

• Ruth Brown:

  A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.