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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.
Ray Charles
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Ray Charles
Age: 71 †
Born: 1932
Born: September 23
Died: 2004
Died: June 10
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There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
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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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Now Listen You know I work so hard, all day long Everything I try to do, Seem to always turn out wrong That's why I wanna stop by on my way home and say Let's go get stoned
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The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.
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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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Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
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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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I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.
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I always stay out of the rehearsal room you know when they first come in. Then once they had chance to play a little bit, then I walk in. Because I've seen guys fall apart.
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I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of
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It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
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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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Goodbye don't mean gone.
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Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more.
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Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming.
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I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.
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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
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I can't help what I sound like. What I sound like is what i am. You know? I cannot be anything other that what I am.
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I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.
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Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.
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