29 Quotes by Ruth Brown

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

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

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.

She's another Tina Turner is what I see,

I did it by sneaking out at home to get on the ferryboat and get over to Norfolk.

I was like the queen of the South.

We have paid a price to sing this music.

Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays.

There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stuff.