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Ray Charles




View Quote Ray Charles: Margie is drunk, Jeff. You should go home and sleep it off.
Jeff Brown: Margie, come on now, let me take you home.
Margie Hendricks: No, I'll leave when I'm good and goddamn ready to!
Ray Charles: She's good and goddamn ready right now.
Margie Hendricks: Why don't you make me leave this, sucker! Teach you to treat me like some piece of meat!
View Quote [Ray is recording "Georgia on My Mind".]
Margie Hendricks: Listen to that crap. I thought you said ABC wasn't gonna force that nothing on him.
Jeff Brown: They didn't. It was Ray's idea. Something new.
Margie Hendricks: Well, what are we then, Jeff? Something old?
Fathead Newman: Yeah, what about us? We got to eat too.
View Quote Ray Charles: You know what they're saying about me? Said I lost something. Said I've gone middle-of-the-road. They might as well say the same thing about you. You were the soul of this band, now every time you're around, you're just drunk. The drunk soul of a blind junkie. What a lovely couple. Why don't you just get outta here?
Margie Hendricks: I ain't drunk, Ray. I'm pregnant. Yeah, that's right. I'm having your baby.
View Quote Ray Charles: There's some things you're not understandin'...
Della Bea Robinson: Well, make me understand, Ray!
Ray Charles: Baby, when I walk out that door, I walk out alone in the dark! I'm trying to do something that ain't nobody ever done in music and business. But I can't do it if I'm alone everwhere I go. I don't want to be alone here, Bea. Not in my own home. Look, Bea, if you don't understand me, then who will?
Della Bea Robinson: I don't know, Ray.
View Quote Fathead Newman: Ray, this fool, Joe Adams, is trying to fine for me for being late.
Ray Charles: What time did you get here?
Fathead Newman: What? Just now. The band's still setting up. Jeff never...
Joe Adams: I'm not Jeff.
Fathead Newman: That's a fact, Jack.
Jeff Brown: Ray, you said the band was my thing.
Ray Charles: That's right, I did.
Jeff Brown: Fathead, you go on back to rehearsal.
Fathead Newman: Ray! You know how it is, you've been there.
Jeff Brown: Fathead, go on now. I'll take care of this. Ray, you want to tell me what the hell is going on.
Joe Adams: I'm not doing anything I haven't been asked to do. Ray's running a business. He shouldn't have to waste time hearing why people were late.
Jeff Adams: I'm not talking to you, Joe. I'm talking to Ray.
View Quote Ray Charles: [accuses Jeff of stealing] Promoters swear that you did side deals so that you could strip my overages. How could you do that? We've been through so much. We were like brothers.
Jeff Brown: You know, Ray... if we were like brothers, why are you paying Joe more than you're paying me?
Ray Charles: Damn all that. You broke my heart, man.
Jeff Brown: You know what, Ray? You broke mine a long goddamn time ago.
Ray Charles: Well, there it is.
Jeff Brown: [walks away] You know something, Ray? You're gonna get yours one day. And I pray to God he has mercy on you soul, you son of a bitch!
Joe Adams: [walks out of his office] Everything all right, Ray?
Ray Charles: How the hell do you think it is?
View Quote Della Bea Robinson: The only thing that can help you is God, Ray!
Ray Charles: Don't you talk about God! You have any idea how it feels to go blind and still be afraid of the dark? And every day, you stand and pray just for a little light, and you don't get nothing. Cause God don't listen to people like me.
Della Bea Robinson: Stop talking like that, Ray.
Ray Charles: As far as I'm concerned, me and God is even, and I do what I damn well please. And goddamnit, if I wanna shoot, I'm gonna shoot up.
View Quote [Della Bea talks about Ray's drug problem.]
Della Bea Robinson: You have got to stop this now.
Ray Charles: No, don't say that, Bea. You know I love more then anythin'.
Della Bea Robinson: There is something that you love more then me and them boys, more then all the women you ever slept with on the road, more then all the dope you ever took.
Ray Charles: What are you talkin' about?
Della Bea Robinson: [shouts] It's your music! And if you keep usin' that needle, they're gonna take away your music and put you in jail. [starts to cry] Is that poison worth losin' everything?
View Quote [last lines]
Della Bea Robinson: If only your mama was here.
Ray Charles: She's here. She ain't never left.
View Quote [last title card]
Title card: Ray kept his promise. He never touched heroin again.
Title card: As celebrated as he became, he never forgot his roots, contributing over $20 million to African-American Colleges and charities for the deaf and blind.