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A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Flower
Foxes
Who
Flowers
Fox
Sends
Wolf
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I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Church
Stage
Streets
Sang
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When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Applause
Dukes
Stood Up
Duke
Stood
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Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Butterfly
Life Is Like
Positive Thinking
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Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Remember
Thinking
Want
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But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Courses
Different
Green
Blues
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I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Holiday
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The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Argument
Next
Sides
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I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Best Things
Sound
Trying
Supposed
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We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Forever
Prove
Trying
Blues
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All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Done
Singing
Years
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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.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Kings
Nevada
People
Scary
Years
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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.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Particular
Singing
Years Ago
Speaking
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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.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Decided
Done
Needs
Song
Background
Blues
Dealing
Nowadays
Sing
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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.
Ruth Brown / Singer-Songwriter
Sun
Unfortunately
Mine
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