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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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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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Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.
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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.
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I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.
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I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.
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Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.
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[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
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There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
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Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.
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