Ruth Brown Quotes

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.

I haven't lost my blues roots.

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

Blues was made for the recessed.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

The blues is life itself.

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.

It's good to see young kids getting into the blues.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

All music is the blues. All of it.

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Blues is like American Express. I don't leave home without it.

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.