We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
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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
I traveled all through the deep South, but I was not getting on the big TV shows.
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
I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
Ruth Brown
There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.
Ruth Brown
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