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Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.

— Diane Watson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

— Ahmet Ertegun

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

— Taylor Hackford

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

— Darius Rucker

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

— Benny Green

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

— Jamie Foxx

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

— Norah Jones

Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.

— D'Angelo

Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.

— Michael Eric Dyson

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

— Johnny Van Zant

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

— John Scofield

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