#ray charles

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life. ↗

— Darius Rucker

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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

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal. ↗

— Ray Charles

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I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer. ↗

— Michael Bolton

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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

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Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Jerry Leiber

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