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When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... DAVID CROSBY Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not...
TAYLOR HACKFORD
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke do... WILLIE NELSON
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... DAVID CROSBY If you are making a film about a very famous individual you live or die by the person that's going t...
TAYLOR HACKFORD
The relationship with Atlantic Records was always a personal one. Our friend and mentor, Ahmet Erteg... GRAHAM NASH Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music w...
PERCY SLEDGE
I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, ... STEVE WINWOOD
I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me. QUINCY JONES
He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not n... LOIS LOWRY Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living.
JAMIE FOXX Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
JAMIE FOXX I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessaril...
AHMET ERTEGUN
I loved those cats at Atlantic. They were the only record guys who never told me what to do. Ahmet (... RAY CHARLES Nas always been my favorite rapper, but 50 Cent, he changed my way of thinking about music 'caus...
SCHOOLBOY Q
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. VAN MORRISON I like Ray Charles, though.
KYLE NELSON You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles,...
BOBBY WOMACK His teammates did not rally around him. At all. They were frustrated, angry, and somewhat sympatheti...
RON ROTHSTEIN When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't s...
AHMET ERTEGUN
I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kiss... NICHOLAS SPARKS
He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness, FRANCINE RIVERS He worked his way up from the scout team. That says a lot about the determination of the guy. He kne...
BRENT CURVEY They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment...
JORGE AMADO I've always written music the way I felt it. I write for the public because I feel like the public, ...
HARRY WARREN But I felt like Pablo Escobar felt like he was an honorable businessman. And when he killed people, ...
CLIFF CURTIS I haven't like our defensive effort in the second half at all lately. We knew (Brown) would be fresh...
DON HOGAN He felt a furious sense of powerlessness, because he played no part in Alice's life, but by god she ...
PAOLO GIORDANO
Country music has been here forever, but for years a lot of people who listened to country music wer... LORETTA LYNN His time was almost up. He was in his last days. I have always felt bad for the animal shelter becau...
ERIN BENNETT
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that m... ROBERT WYATT
His brother, he thinks, was in love with everyone he knew. JOHN COREY WHALEY
When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in ... QUINCY JONES because that was the only way they felt they could survive.
DIANE ABBOTT When Ray got his diploma, he felt more confident, and it showed in his walk. He opened up more. He b...
DEBORAH UMBREIT I'll miss his father-like guidance, his friendship and his yelling, because he didn't yell often but...
GREG ROLLINS [Charles was highlighted early in the show with a performance by Jamie Foxx and Alicia Keys, who pla...
HOAGY CARMICHAEL It's tough in the Hip Hop industry to continue to create, because the powers that be want a throw aw...
DAZ DILLINGER It was like Frank Sinatra. He was so popular because he was a storyteller, and it was the same thing...
MARCUS BELGRAVE He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did ...
SARAH MLYNOWSKI The boys were impressive. Ray tends to rush his game, like he did in the second set, but he pulled i...
LINDA GILLILAND The story of Ray Charles is the world underestimating him. ... Everyone ultimately kept saying [to h...
TAYLOR HACKFORD He knew today that his life was forever changed in that one moment and he was clueless as to why or ...
P.J. FIALA
My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music. AVICII Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he'...
ICE CUBE I know myself and Ray Lewis have similar builds. People say what they want to, but (Savage) was one ...
D'QWELL JACKSON
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin. ERIC CLAPTON
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... JESSE MCCARTNEY
People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about hi... CARSON MCCULLERS When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because ...
MATTHEW PEARL
He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her drea... CASSANDRA CLARE He was able to create this style of music that is highly valued by blues aficionados but also by the...
JOEL SLOTNIKOFF
Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so m... BENNY GREEN It's crazy, because I just heard all the stories about what Jessie did here. I know how he was with ...
ANTONIO PIERCE Everyone knew Mr. Charles. He's got a lot of great stories.
KRYSTYNA PHILLIPS He was a quiet ground-breaker, ... Many of his accomplishments go unrecognized because he did things...
HARRY PACHON
Everyone here has always treated me like thier daughter. It doesn't matter who it is, and it was eve... SHANNON MILLER
Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were ... LOUIS ARMSTRONG Chauncey was part of me. I knew how he felt, and he knew how I felt. It's like his spirit is still c...
CHAD SANDERS When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusi...
LUNDY BANCROFT Rob embodied science. That was easily reflected in this symposium and everything that he did for thi...
ADAM KRUPICKA One gentleman was floating by and snagged the light fixture out front and tied himself off to it and...
TOM DALY
In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just... HARUKI MURAKAMI I believed in him and Ray Wilkins and the positive things they did,
DAVID LIVERMORE
What were he and his friends doing, really, other than hanging from a branch, sticking their tongues... JEFFREY EUGENIDES
I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you rea... MUSIQ SOULCHILD
Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good ... STEPHEN JAY GOULD His ability to relate to victims, witnesses and defendants was incredible. Everyone felt comfortable...
DENNIS LYNCH
Lately, he was always seen in a dark suit and somber, ... I wanted to see what he represented to me ... DAVID LACHAPELLE I trusted my instincts here, but I'm not stupid. The next thing I did was throw him into the shark t...
TAYLOR HACKFORD
When Ray did I Can't Stop Loving You , that was probably the time when country music was heard by mo... WILLIE NELSON
No! No one who was great in the world will be forgotten, but everyone was great in his own way, and ... SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Ok, I see. When they say Charles Wovenu is passing by, everyone wants to see Charles Wovenu. But whe... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I remember the session went well. Olan was very precise. He was like a professor. You wouldn't guess...
RAY WALKER
He himself felt defeated because he was fighting against something he did not hate, because he did n... CARLOS FUENTES
The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn'... JOHN GREEN There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like. NIKKI ROWE
I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed. AARON NEVILLE I felt bad because of the kids and his family, but she was rarely there. He was really lonely. I mad...
REBECCA LOOS
It was, he felt, a persistent flaw in his wife's otherwise practical and sensible character that she... TERRY PRATCHETT He knew his son was being held and he believed they would let him and his son go if he cooperated.
JOHNNY GRIFFIN Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'
MICHELLE PHAN We felt he would energize a start-up program, just (because) of the way he relates to kids. And the ...
MANNY ZAFIROS Frankie's stuff and his poise enabled him to succeed, and he just did it at a time when nobody expec...
BILL STONEMAN Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they ha...
JANE RUSSELL He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance...
LORETTA CHASE From the first paragraph, I was hooked. I really felt taken by his voice and the way he was writing ...
JAMES STILL He really embodied a lot of what you envision being the highest ideal of being a physician and heale...
HEATHER MURREN I feel like he felt like he was in a situation and had to get things off his chest,
TONY YAYO
I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn't make him feel bad. I get it too. When... MICHAEL THOMAS FORD He was well liked and well respected by everyone because he was kind to everyone and he listened.
DIANA DUTTON We knew they were going to come out strong. Ray was really on tonight. We knew that we had to get a ...
BRIAN MCDONOUGH We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I k...
IAN AXEL He left. He quit because he felt he was playing for everybody else. His heart wasn't in it. That's s...
CHRIS SCELFO They knew it was on their shoulders when it was like 7-all. I was really proud of Tara and Sarah, th...
JIM SHEEHAN
As they moved through the old barn, Adam felt Ronan’s eyes glance off him and away, his disinteres... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music...
CHARLEY PRIDE
Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never k... AUSTIN GROSSMAN
Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally ass... URSULA K. LE GUIN
