#ray charles

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#charles #give #his #legacy #living

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away. ↗

— Norah Jones

#away #bless #charles #feet #god

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#concert #electricity #endings #fifteen #fried

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#before #both #charles #get #i

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. ↗

— Van Morrison

#charles #first #imagination #live #music

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#blue #blues #bobby #bought #charles

Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#bit #charles #going #good #hear

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#amp #anybody #between #borders #broke