I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
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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.Ruth Brown
When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
Ruth Brown
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
There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.
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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.
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