Clifton Powell credited as playing...
Jeff Brown
- Jeff Brown: Where you from Ray?
- Ray Charles: North Florida.
- Jeff Brown: Old North Florida boy. Your people still down there?
- Ray Charles: Naw.
- Jeff Brown: All right. Hey, pardon me for asking, but how do you get around so good without a cane or a dog?
- Ray Charles: How do you get around so good without a cane or a dog?
- Jeff Brown: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pry.
- Ray Charles: My ears gotta be my eyes, man. Everything sounds different, you know? That's why I wear hard sole shoes so I can hear the echo of my footsteps off the wall. When I pass by an open doorway the sound changes.
- Jeff Brown: Wow, that's cool.
- Ray Charles: You gotta learn pretty quick if you want to get around on your own.
- Ray Charles: Marge is drunk, Jeff. Go home and sleep it off.
- Jeff Brown: 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.
- [Ray is recording "Georgia on my Mind"]
- Margie Hendricks: Listen to that crap. I thought you said ABC wasn't gonna force nothing on him.
- Jeff Brown: They didn't. It was Ray's idea. Something new.
- Margie Hendricks: What are we then, Jeff? Something old?
- Fathead Newman: Yeah. We got to eat too.
- [after Ray accuses Jeff of stealing]
- Ray Charles: How could you do that? We've been through so much. We were like brothers.
- Jeff Brown: 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.
- Jeff Brown: Well you know what, Ray? You broke mine a long goddamn time ago.
- Ray Charles: Well, there it is.
- [Jeff walks away]
- Jeff Brown: You know something, Ray? You're gonna get yours one day. And I pray to God he has mercy on your soul, you son of a bitch!
- Fathead Newman: Ray, this fool, Joe Adams, is trying to fine 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's going on man?
- 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 Brown: I'm not talking to you, Joe. I'm talking to Ray.