I guess I thought of it as an American tragedy, ... It has all the elements -- the success is larger than life, the aspirations are larger than life, and the fall from grace is equally larger than life. Peter Guralnick
Motivational, Inspirational, Funny Quotes
![When he went pop, he consciously bleached out the sound with 'You Send Me' [and others]. It was not accidental. - Peter Guralnick Quotes](/pic/img/img.php?text=V2hlbiBoZSB3ZW50IHBvcCwgaGUgY29uc2Npb3VzbHkgYmxlYWNoZWQgb3V0IHRoZSBzb3VuZCB3aXRoICdZb3UgU2VuZCBNZScgW2FuZCBvdGhlcnNdLiBJdCB3YXMgbm90IGFjY2lkZW50YWwuIA==&author=ICBQZXRlciBHdXJhbG5pY2sgICAg&num=13 "When he went pop, he consciously bleached out the sound with 'You Send Me' [and others]. It was not accidental. - Peter Guralnick Quotes")
![[The song, based on an old gospel song, was] the fusion of all the elements that till then had simply failed to coalesce, ... It was the uninhibited, altogether abandoned sound of the church; it was the keening, ecstatic voicings by which the world has come to know Ray Charles best. - Peter Guralnick Quotes](/pic/img/img.php?text=W1RoZSBzb25nLCBiYXNlZCBvbiBhbiBvbGQgZ29zcGVsIHNvbmcsIHdhc10gdGhlIGZ1c2lvbiBvZiBhbGwgdGhlIGVsZW1lbnRzIHRoYXQgdGlsbCB0aGVuIGhhZCBzaW1wbHkgZmFpbGVkIHRvIGNvYWxlc2NlLCAuLi4gSXQgd2FzIHRoZSB1bmluaGliaXRlZCwgYWx0b2dldGhlciBhYmFuZG9uZWQgc291bmQgb2YgdGhlIGNodXJjaDsgaXQgd2FzIHRoZSBrZWVuaW5nLCBlY3N0YXRpYyB2b2ljaW5ncyBieSB3aGljaCB0aGUgd29ybGQgaGFzIGNvbWUgdG8ga25vdyBSYXkgQ2hhcmxlcyBiZXN0LiA=&author=ICBQZXRlciBHdXJhbG5pY2sgICAg&num=11 "[The song, based on an old gospel song, was] the fusion of all the elements that till then had simply failed to coalesce, ... It was the uninhibited, altogether abandoned sound of the church; it was the keening, ecstatic voicings by which the world has come to know Ray Charles best. - Peter Guralnick Quotes")
