A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
Ruth Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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