Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.
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Related We came out with a lot of energy in the third quarter and got a lot of buckets off our defense. J.B.... DAMON ARTERY There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that m... ROBERT WYATT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy... PATRICIA BRIGGS My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music. AVICII I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke do... WILLIE NELSON My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o... CHRIS STAPLETON Charles did a fine job winning the Atlantic Series title last year. When he tested with us in Decemb... ERIC BACHELART From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into fol... MARILYN MANSON Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music w... PERCY SLEDGE As a society, we have become completely disconnected from where our food comes from. Prince Charles ... HELGE HELLBERG The catalogs of Motown and the Soul '70s and Rock & Roll '60s are disappearing from retail shelves. ... IRA PITTELMAN I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can... FRANK BLACK Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' ... ALEX WINSTON I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Everyone in my record collection -- Sam and Dave, Marvin Gaye, all the Motown acts, Ruth Brown, all ... BONNIE RAITT The last two games, Charles has been our rock. He was a big key. PAT FLANNERY we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was fortunate to come from a family that never had those problems. My parents were able to fully s... ERICA HOWARD I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessaril... AHMET ERTEGUN I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well. HALEY REINHART We all had a common love of Southern rock, metal and outlaw country that we thought was missing from... BENJI LINEBERRY There's not much I don't like about (Charles and Dustin). They're both athletic, but past that, they... CHARLES DAVIS There was a guy by the name of Charles Schwab: actually, Charles M. Schwab. I read a lot about him, ... CHARLES SCHWAB Charles Wynn ran the ball really well, but Charles did most of that (himself). BRADY HOKE Coming from Tribulations, which had more of a rock sound, I think Kevin wanted to get back to more o... ALEX BERAM You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of Af... DAMIAN MARLEY It started somewhere from there. DEYTH BANGER I listen to a wide range of music, from country to pop to alternative rock, as well as Indian music.... SHREYA GHOSHAL Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin. ERIC CLAPTON There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN If you drew a circle around Baton Rouge, you'd have to go pretty far out to find any venue that had ... BERNARD BOUDREAUX I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with ... ERIC DICKERSON I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charl... CHARLES M. SCHULZ He even played for them. I was interested in him from when I was young so it was very exciting. Char... ALEXEI SMERTIN I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands l... GLEN CAMPBELL Country music has been here forever, but for years a lot of people who listened to country music wer... LORETTA LYNN The Independence count appears that Charles Flynn may be slightly ahead of Mr. Brown, DENNIS WARD I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, ... STEVE WINWOOD Charles Darwin got his theory, his notion of natural selection, evolution, and so did its independen... PAUL SAMUELSON I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly. MARY TYLER MOORE Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not... TAYLOR HACKFORD I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic... GARY OLDMAN I wanted to become a better entertainer, and I learned from my brother James Andrews. And I've b... TROMBONE SHORTY There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60'... TAYLOR HANSON Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You k... TOMMY CHONG There was just a lot of hard work in this game. It is always difficult to come in here and win. Oak ... GARY GOSHERT but as you get to know St. Charles County, you learn that there are a lot of organizations and peopl... DAVID ROSS I have always been drawn to the Restoration period of Charles II. I have a soft spot for Charles Stu... VIRGINIA HENLEY [Kroeger was introduced to Dimebag and Paul in 2002 in Dallas by former Alice in Chains guitarist Je... CHAD KROEGER Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... JESSE MCCARTNEY Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and peopl... PERCY SLEDGE Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, c... CHANTAL KREVIAZUK The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, a... MILES DAVIS Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genr... ZEDD Right now there are a lot of Angels represented. We are from all over the world. We come from differ... ELSA HOSK My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol... JAKE EPSTEIN I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that. AL JARREAU I've always said that the reason 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' is a classic is because it reflects the... LEE MENDELSON There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heav... E. NESBIT My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a... WINONA RYDER Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music... AHMET ERTEGUN We are in 2006 and nothing has happened. There are no international forces we can count on, and no o... FLORENCE HARTMANN The well-deserved attention that Scott has enjoyed in the 1990s and 2000s has come not only from the... ALEX HENDERSON There are two teams I'd like to play for. The Texans, who have a lot of young talented guys who can ... STUART SCHWEIGERT I love funk and soul and Motown. TARON EGERTON We were dispatched to the area of Lake Charles and Abbeville-Lafayette as a casket-recovery strike t... LYNN YEATES Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living. JAMIE FOXX Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living. JAMIE FOXX Charles Darwin, and the evulation of a lie, BRIAN Charles is fine. He's doing well, and he's a key guy for us on defense. MARK MANGINO A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we ... BILLY CORGAN I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississi... ROBBIE ROBERTSON There is so much shame and guilt in our society, and I think it has deprived a lot of people from li... MARY LAMBERT Everyone knew Mr. Charles. He's got a lot of great stories. KRYSTYNA PHILLIPS I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did. A. SCOTT BERG I thought our kids came out the second half and played at that other energy level. We made a lot of ... RICK STANSBURY Charles said everything went well. But I expected him to enjoy it. They have good people there and t... CARL POSTON Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions. MORRISSEY There is one person in charge of every office in America and that person is Charles Darwin. CHARLIE GRANDY I think there's a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there's some peop... ANDERSON PAAK Dedicated to my parents, Charles and Betty Murphy, and to my wife, Nancy. Anything good that has com... DALE MURPHY Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in ... BORIS YELTSIN Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very impo... LEONARD NIMOY I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I cam... J. D. VANCE I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I ... DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of ... YO-YO MA Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do ... ART MALIK I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started mes... BLAKE MICHAEL I'd work with Charles Kelley anytime. I'd go do a 'Pancho and Lefty' record with Cha... DARIUS RUCKER if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Bolton are very difficult to play against and they had a lot of free-kicks and throw-ins and you can... RAFAEL BENITEZ There have been 40-something (U.S.) presidents overall, and they've all had different ways of doing ... DARREN HOWARD We looked everywhere for a mention of Charles Darwin, for example. There was nothing. HUBERT WOLF I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, ... JOHN LEGEND I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. ARETHA FRANKLIN I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katr... DALE ARCHER I come from Holland, and there's a lot of nudity in film there. CARICE VAN HOUTEN There is so much great rock from the '60s, '70s, a little thinner in the '80s. I can't believe that ... ALICE COOPER Diversity wasn't always cultivated along the banks of the Charles. ARTHUR LUBOW
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