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I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.
Ray Charles
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Ray Charles
Age: 71 †
Born: 1932
Born: September 23
Died: 2004
Died: June 10
Composer
Jazz Musician
Music Arranger
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I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.
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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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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 think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.
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Goodbye don't mean gone.
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When I'm having a rehearsal and there are new guys who come in to try out for the job, I always let my conductor rehearse them. Because I don't want the guy to get bent out of shape, because I walk in.
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I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.
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Sighted people, you gotta deal with them.
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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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Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
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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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I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.
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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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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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