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Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.
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 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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There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
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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 was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
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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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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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I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.
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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 is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate
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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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Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.
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I don't think any of us really knows why we're here. But I think we're supposed to believe we're here for a purpose.
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I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.
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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 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.
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The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest.
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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 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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