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

- Lou Rawls

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 whe…

- Lou Rawls

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

- Lou Rawls

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

- Lou Rawls

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

- Lou Rawls

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

- Lou Rawls

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 mea…

- Lou Rawls

Music is the greatest communication in the world.

- Lou Rawls

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 …

- Lou Rawls