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Ruth Brown

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

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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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"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 was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time."
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"There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through."
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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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"But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now."
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"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 they came, and the reason that it was here."
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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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"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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