"His melding of styles influenced artists from a wide range of genres, and his own records are classics, running the g…"

"Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong, Come and love your daddy all night long. All right now, hey hey, all right. See t…"

"Yeah yeah, what'd I say, all right Well, tell me what'd I say, yeah Tell me what'd I say right now Tell me what'd I say"

"You gotta know how to get to people's heart"

"I got a woman way over town, That's good to me, Oh yeah!"

"But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally,…"

"Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it."

"Music has been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make …"

"The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done."

"Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you — a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have ha…"