I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles. — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
“Honey -- even Ray Charles can see that you have control issues.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles. — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles. — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
“You have a problem, just ask yourself one simple question: What would Ray Charles do in a situation like this?” — Howard Korder Copy Share Image
Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music. — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
I love Hank Williams songs, but I love hearing Ray Charles sing them much more. — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
When people ask me, I say I studied at the University of Ray Charles and went to learn with the master, Quincy. — James Ingram Copy Share Image
The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
The label I was on had Dionne, The Shirelles and several other R&B artists. I loved guys like Ray Charles and I… — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
How would you define [Bob] Dylan? You can't. That's a true artist. How about Ray Charles? Can you classify Ray Charles? No,… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
Finding out that Ray Charles sang country songs but it sounded as soulful as any rhythm and blues record that kind of… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
Ray Charles revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King… — Diane Watson Copy Share Image
There were certain Ray Charles albums and a couple of early Marvin Gaye records that I used to listen to with a… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
I guess we got to do it again. Oh, Ah! Yeah, youre ready. Thats for Ray Charles. Give it up for Ray… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while -… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
I remember working with Ray Charles when I was quite young, and I would wonder, 'Why would he sing 'Georgia On My… — Merry Clayton Copy Share Image
When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like… — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
When I'm just tryna funk, it's gonna be the Staple Singers, man - Pop Staples. And Ray Charles. Ray could take 'Eleanor… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I'd say that Ray Charles is definitely the biggest influence on my singing. Also Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
It was awesome growing up listening to Oasis and Paolo Nutini, but I also loved growing up listening to Ray Charles and… — Tom Walker Copy Share Image
I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records.… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
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