Ruth brown

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

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

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...