Ray Charles
Related Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not... TAYLOR HACKFORD I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES TEDDY THOMPSON AVICII DENNIS MILLER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON CLINT EASTWOOD Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he'... ICE CUBE You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t... ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN SHANIA TWAIN My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected ... B.O.B It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON TESSANNE CHIN STEVE WINWOOD BRANDON BOYD It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON JAY-Z TOM WAITS STORMZY AIMEE MANN FETTY WAP HUNTER HAYES I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno... ARIEL PINK I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL I would've given my right arm to do something on the 'Ray' film, the movie about Ray Cha... NE-YO JIMMY BUFFETT CHANCE THE RAPPER Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't. ISAAC STERN I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I fee... WANG LEEHOM ELVIS MITCHELL HENRY ROLLINS JOSH HOMME RICK RUBIN Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I... KACEY MUSGRAVES A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Bi... CHRIS STAPLETON I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, you... PRINCE ROYCE I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is ... KIM GORDON SAM SMITH POST MALONE I get good references from a wide range of music. Something who's been a good influence in the l... RIZ AHMED I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It'... ROBERT PLANT PAT METHENY BIG SMO JESSE MCCARTNEY Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record woul... CHARLIE WORSHAM What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is ju... ZEDD I buy everything India Arie, just because she's such a positive person, and I just love her musi... TIKA SUMPTER I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ... MIKE D ADELE When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ... JACK JONES J. COLE I believe when the music is being sung or being played, at the end of it, there's some sort of g... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi... IRWIN THOMAS Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's g... ADAM LAMBERT BEN LOVETT LIL UZI VERT My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School a... BILLY ECKSTINE GERARD WAY CHRIS LOWE My main goal in life is to be happy. If I can make other people happy by doing what I love, then I f... CYRILLE AIMEE I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my... KATE BUSH KAT GRAHAM CHANTAL KREVIAZUK BARRY WHITE MAYER HAWTHORNE America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it... TAYLOR HAWKINS MICHAEL STIPE HALSEY CARRIE BROWNSTEIN BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and t... RYAN ADAMS If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from sc... AFROJACK KIRK HAMMETT I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music c... JUICY J SUFJAN STEVENS NINA SIMONE What I do isn't black music; it's just my music. DARYL HALL ALESSIA CARA VICTORIA JUSTICE I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was ver... MICHAEL RAPAPORT At times, I think, 'What would I rather be doing than music?' That's what you have to as... NAYVADIUS CASH One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make so... ROBERT MOOG A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of... ART BLAKEY There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwin... NICK LACHEY I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's... MAC DEMARCO HAROLD PRINCE DAVID GEFFEN ASTRO I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that a... DANNY ELFMAN MARILYN MANSON HENRY ROLLINS Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go ... NEIL YOUNG MARCUS SAMUELSSON GEORGE STRAIT I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes t... MITCHEL MUSSO
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Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a... 
My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music. 
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Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It'... 
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I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there wa... 
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I'm just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it's cooked, I&#... 
I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge musi... 
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I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been some... 
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I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music... 
I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... 
I'm just trying to make music everybody can get happy to and vibe to and turn up to. So long as ... 
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My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I... 
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... 
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My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me. 
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice. 
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Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true. 
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. 
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You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time. 
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. 
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. 
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Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?. 
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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left. 
Children are poor men's riches. 
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In business for yourself, not by yourself. 
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