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Ruth Brown

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."

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Donna Grant

"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."

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Donna Grant

"I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns."

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Donna Grant

"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."

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Donna Grant

"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."

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Donna Grant

"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing."

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Donna Grant

"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."

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Donna Grant

"I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too."

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Donna Grant

"An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me."

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

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

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Ruth Brown
"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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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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Ruth Brown
"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."

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

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Ruth Brown
"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 can sing the blues."

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

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

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