Deep Quote by Don Felder

Finding out that Ray Charles sang country songs but it sounded as soulful as any rhythm and blues record that kind of opened up…

— Michael Kiwanuka

At an early age I was listening to BB King, what have you. Ray Charles, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy Mcgriff, you dig? With the obvious…

— Pimp C

I remember working with Ray Charles when I was quite young, and I would wonder, 'Why would he sing 'Georgia On My Mind' and…

— Merry Clayton

I grew up in South Carolina. A lot of what I remember back in the day is AM radio. When I was a kid,…

— Darius Rucker

One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny…

— Sufjan Stevens

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi,…

— Rhymefest

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

— Little Milton

For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I loved Steve Martin when I was younger, in the '70s.

— Mick Foley

I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way…

— Richard Ford

I'm a big country fan. I remember, as a kid, when Ray Charles did the 'Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music' record. That's…

— Michael McDonald

Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the…

— Tony Bennett