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Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
Ray Charles
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Ray Charles
Age: 71 †
Born: 1932
Born: September 23
Died: 2004
Died: June 10
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I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.
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The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
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I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.
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