Frasi di Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson è stato un cantante e pianista statunitense, considerato uno dei pionieri della musica soul.

Perse completamente la vista all'età di sei anni forse a causa di un glaucoma. Seppe coniugare sonorità diverse, dal rhythm and blues alla musica country, dal Vocal jazz al piano blues fino al soul blues.

Il brano Georgia on My Mind è stato il suo più grande successo. Nel 1990 partecipò, classificandosi al secondo posto, al Festival di Sanremo dove interpretò in coppia con Toto Cutugno la canzone Gli amori. Il suo ultimo contributo alla musica è stato la produzione di un disco di duetti con B.B. King, Elton John, Norah Jones e Johnny Mathis.

The Genius - come era stato soprannominato per il suo straordinario talento artistico, nel 1980 apparve nel film The Blues Brothers. Frank Sinatra lo chiamò "l'unico vero genio del business".Nel 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine lo nominò 10º tra i 100 più grandi artisti di tutti i tempi e 2º nella classifica del 2008 dei 100 più grandi cantanti di sempre.Il sopra citato brano Georgia on My Mind - assieme ad altri motivi come I Can't Stop Loving You, Unchain My Heart, Hit the Road Jack - gli hanno valso tredici Grammy.



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✵ 23. Settembre 1930 – 10. Giugno 2004
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Ray Charles: Frasi in inglese

“I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.”

As quoted "Words of the Week" in Jet magazine, Vol. 64, No. 6 (25 April 1983), p. 40
Contesto: 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 my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

“Do it right or don't do it at all.”

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (1998)
Contesto: Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.

“You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit — just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.”

For the Love of Women, p. 239
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
Contesto: Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women. Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
But sex is something else. I'm not sure that there can ever be too much sex. To me, it's another one of our daily requirements — like eating. If I go twenty-four hours without it, I get hungry. Sex needs to be open and fun, free and happy. It's whatever you make it, and I try my hardest to create situations where me and my woman can enjoy ourselves — all of ourselves — without our inhibitions getting in the way.
You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit — just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.

“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 happened to you. … It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room. Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power.”

As quoted in LIFE magazine (July 1966), also in Ray Charles : Man and Music (1998) by Michael Lydon, p. 264
As quoted in Pearls of Wisdom (198 http://interview.sweetsearch.com/2010/11/ray-charles.html
Variante: What is soul? It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

“You better live every day like your last because one day you're going to be right.”

As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk (2007) by Larry Chang and Roderick Terry, p. 365

“Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together.”

Roughing It, p. 155
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
Contesto: Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
That's how my band made it. We swam through a lot of shit together, we swallowed a lot of pride, but we managed to do what we needed to do.

“Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.”

For the Love of Women, p. 239
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
Contesto: Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women. Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
But sex is something else. I'm not sure that there can ever be too much sex. To me, it's another one of our daily requirements — like eating. If I go twenty-four hours without it, I get hungry. Sex needs to be open and fun, free and happy. It's whatever you make it, and I try my hardest to create situations where me and my woman can enjoy ourselves — all of ourselves — without our inhibitions getting in the way.
You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit — just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.

“I was born with music inside me.”

Home, p. 8
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
Contesto: I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of, since none of my relatives could sing or play an instrument. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me — like food or water.

“You gotta know how to get to people's heart”

Pop Chronicles: Show 15 - The Soul Reformation I: A symposium on soul http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19764/m1/, interview recorded 1.2.1968 http://web.archive.org/web/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s.

“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, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that.”

http://interview.sweetsearch.com/2010/11/ray-charles.html
A symposium on soul, Pop Chronicles, Show 15: The Soul Reformation http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNTML/browse/?start=14&fq=untl_collection%3AJGPC, interview recorded 3.8.1968 http://web.archive.org/web/20100116003442/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/index-to-interviews.

“My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.”

Fooling, Drowning, Hallelujahing, p. 174
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)

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

Pop Chronicles: Show 55 - Crammer: A lively cram course on the history of rock and some other things http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19838/m1/, interview recorded 3.8.1968 http://web.archive.org/web/20100116003442/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/index-to-interviews.

“Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you.
Georgia, oh Georgia, no peace I find…
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind.”

Though renditions by Ray Charles are among the most popular and famous, the lyrics of "Georgia On My Mind" (1930) were written by Stuart Gorrell and the music by Hoagy Carmichael.
Misattributed

“Every music has its own soul, Quincy.”

Origine: Said to Quincy Jones as quoted in The Arranger, an article in Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-arranger-20940901/

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