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

- Ruth Brown

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

- Ruth Brown

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

- 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 Nevad…

- Ruth Brown

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

- Ruth Brown

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

- Ruth Brown

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

- Ruth Brown

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

- Ruth Brown

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

- Ruth Brown