"I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception,
all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life. 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 before I learned." - on
surviving a 1958 car crash. Rawls was pronounced dead on the way to the
hospital. He was in a coma for five days.
I don't put myself in any particular category. Whatever the occasion
calls for, I rise to the occasion. There are no limits to music, so why
should I limit myself? - as a gospel, soul, blues, jazz and pop artist