Lou Rawls Quotes

#1. A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

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#2. I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

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#3. When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain?

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#4. I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

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#5. I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

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#6. I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.

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#7. Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.

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#8. There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

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#9. Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

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#10. The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.

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