Imagine separating kids according to color when we couldn't even see each other. Now ain't that a bitch!
Ray Charles, in reference to the segregated Florida School for the Deaf and Blind he attended as a child
Death is the one motherfucker that ain't ever going away.
Ray Charles
You can't make a deal with death. No, sir. And you can't make a deal with God. Death is coldblooded, and maybe God is too.
Ray Charles
If you're going to write a good song, you're going to have to praise a woman. That's the key.
Ray Charles
Maybe I put together two things that hadn't been put together before, but, hell, give credit to the church singers and the bluesmen who I got it from. I got enough credit. Let people know that it didn't come from me. It came from before me.
Ray Charles, on being credited as the inventor of soul music