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

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"Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra."

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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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