Ray Charles Quotes
54 Ray Charles quotes by 45 unique authors
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I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.
— Joe Cocker
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Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
— Taylor Hackford
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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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I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and…
— Janis Ian
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I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.
— Tom Waits
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Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.
— Donald Fagen
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Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
— Jamie Foxx
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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…
— Norah Jones
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Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern…
— Jon Landau
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
— Van Morrison
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
— Quincy Jones
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I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles.
— Merry Clayton
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When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.
— Daryl Hall
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I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall.
— Robbie Robertson
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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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I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with…
— Edgar Winter
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Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
— Ahmet Ertegun
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I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how…
— Ahmet Ertegun
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I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I…
— Teri Garr
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Why do single women take advice from other single women? That's like Stevie Wonder giving Ray Charles driving directions.
— Hussein Nishah
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I'm sorry that I'm an intellectual. I'm not a skeptic, it doesn't take me twenty minutes to philosophically argue what colour the sky is. The…
— Jeremy Limn
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Hoes on my dick cuz I look like Ray Charles.
— Lil B
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I guess we got to do it again. Oh, Ah! Yeah, youre ready. Thats for Ray Charles. Give it up for Ray Charles and his…
— Jamie Foxx
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I got so many people to thank tonight. First I want to start it out with Taylor Hackford. Taylor, you took a chance, man. I…
— Jamie Foxx
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Taylor Gang or get your haircut by Ray Charles.
— Taylor Gang
Who Wrote These Ray Charles Quotes
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