29 Quotes by Ruth Brown

I traveled all through the deep South, but I was not getting on the big TV shows.

It works both ways. If they both want to play, they both should pay for it.

In those days, as I always tell B.B and Buddy Guy and these guys and gave them a place to cry like a man without having to do it.

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.

All three of us came from the Tidewater area (in Virginia).

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.