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. (Ray Charles)

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.

Ray Charles

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