"Don't go backwards - you've already been there."
"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."
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Source: Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.111, Da Capo Press
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