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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's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
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Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.
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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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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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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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Goodbye don't mean gone.
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Sighted people, you gotta deal with them.
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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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Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
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There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'
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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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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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Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.
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Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming.
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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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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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There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
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You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit - just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.
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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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