Captured Quote by Van Morrison

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

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

— Taylor Hackford

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our…

— Aretha Franklin

Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had…

— Dave Haywood

[Charles McPherson] was kind enough to go to a record gig of mine where we recorded a song of his.

— Jon Gordon

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like…

— John Fogerty

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

Actually, the first songs I learned were imitations of Johnny Mathis.

— Jose Jose

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

I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can…

— Scotty Moore

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and…

— Madeleine Peyroux

My folks had a lot of Motown records, so that was a kind of an early inspiration. I grew up on the radio really.

— Samuel Ervin Beam