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Ruth Brown

"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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"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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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"People don't commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can't find any lights of hope."

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"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

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"People with evil ideas will think and do as they have learned, but those people with good ideas have the responsibility to show them the way of love, way of truth, and the way of peace."

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"Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges."

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"But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now."
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"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."
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"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 thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."
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