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Ruth Brown Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 30, 1928

Topics

Trying Place Blues Prove Forever

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

John C. Calhoun

Nature Passion Time Short Down Run

Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.

Control Game Golf You Always Club

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

Car Nothing Understand Will Sense

It isn't enough for a book to be transporting or entertaining; it must also come from a place of knowledge and an understanding of aesthetics. Even where a longlisted book wears its craftsmanship lightly, the power of the writing shines through.

Knowledge Power Writing Book Enough

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

Friend Truth Death Me Strong You

I couldn't be playing him for this long if I didn't like him.

Long Him Playing Like

Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the time of the Crusaders.

Time Early India Evidence Means

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.

God Thank God Doing Wall She Out

I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you.

Time Myself People Me Media You

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

Time Treasure Programming Up Us Who

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

Words Writing Look Find Choice

I am not nostalgic for the past.

Christian Lacroix

Past I Am Nostalgic Am

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