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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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Ray Charles
Age: 71 †
Born: 1932
Born: September 23
Died: 2004
Died: June 10
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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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Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right
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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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[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 are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
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Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate
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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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Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
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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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The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.
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I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.
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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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Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you.
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Goodbye don't mean gone.
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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 don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.
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Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.
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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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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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