Everyone looked at him like he was their ... savior, ... everywhere he went he was an object of admiration and adoration -- and yet he couldn't muffle the growing discontent, the helplessness he felt at his inability to control not so much the world around him as his private world, the inner world that was revealed to no one but him. 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")
