In music you just can't escape when something is beautiful.

Like a good song, you can't get away from a good song. You have a good song, and it will still

be beautiful, even when somebody with a bad voice sings it. I love the old writers, who wrote

beautiful love songs. I came up on those kinds of songs. But I have just as much love for blues

and jazz too.

It's like Duke Ellington said; there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell

when something is good.

More often than not he wasn't called by his name - or even his longtime nickname "Brother Ray"

---his is simply "The Genius."