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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. — Ray Charles

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. — Tom Waits

Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right — Ray Charles

If you can play the blues, you can do anything. — Ray Charles

Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two. — Percy Sledge

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music. — Avicii

Death ray, fiddlesticks! Why, it doesn't even slow them up! — Charles Adams

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense. — Ray Charles

The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done. — Ray Charles

I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. — J. D. Souther

Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes. — Ray Charles

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people. — Charles Ray

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life. — Darius Rucker

I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles. — Merry Clayton

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is. — Clint Eastwood

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. — Ray Charles

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me. — Ray Charles

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit. — Ray Charles

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent. — Ray Charles

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.' — Ray Charles

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice. — Ray Charles

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond. — Ray Charles

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too. — Randy Newman

I sing what I sing true. Each night I sing it the way I feel that night. — Ray Charles

Anger gone as quick as it had come, now I just felt like an idiot. Not that this was the first time, and probably wouldn't be the last. (Ray) — Charles Sheehan-Miles

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music. — Ray Charles

I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. — Ray Charles

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. — Ray Charles

Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you. — Ray Charles

Goodbye don't mean gone. — Ray Charles

The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest. — Ray Charles

You have a problem, just ask yourself one simple question: What would Ray Charles do in a situation like this? — Howard Korder

Sighted people, you gotta deal with them. — Ray Charles

Don't go backwards - you've already been there. — Ray Charles

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. — Ray Charles

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want. — Ray Charles

Art Tatum
he was a genius. And Einstein, not me. — Ray Charles

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. — Ray Charles

All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow. — Dave Barry

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. — Ray Charles

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. — Ray Charles

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day. — J. Cole

Next time we meet again, let's play doctor — Charles Sheehan-Miles

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of — Ray Charles

Honey
even Ray Charles can see that you have control issues. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles. — Taylor Hackford

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me ... You'd have to remove the music surgically. — Ray Charles

I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles. — Clint Eastwood

If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine. — Ray Charles

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap. — Ray Charles

I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage. — Chino XL

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away. — Norah Jones

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin. — Eric Clapton

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. — Ray Charles

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. — Ray Charles

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board. — Dennis Miller

I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me. — Quincy Jones

Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

Even though I'm not Jewish ... Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting. — Ray Charles

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles? — John Scofield

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over. — Ray Charles

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities. — Ray Charles

I set my own rhythm and it was usually a little faster than other people's. — Ray Charles

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. — Van Morrison

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living. — Jamie Foxx

Most people are dead. Hitler. Ray Charles. Some other guys. But mostly those two. — Louis C.K.

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

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear. — Ray Charles

Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on. — Jerry Leiber

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. — Ray Charles

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice. — Taylor Hackford

I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be great. — Ray Charles

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old. — Joe Cocker

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles. — Daryl Hall

That feeling that I could touch the sky? That's exactly how you make me feel. (Ray) — Charles Sheehan-Miles

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment. — Ray Charles

All my life I've always been so blue, born to lose, and now I'm losing you. — Ray Charles

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate — Ray Charles

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer. — Michael Bolton

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles

The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized. — LeCrae

I LOVE YOU,CARRIE — Charles Sheehan-Miles

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it. — Ray Charles

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice ... Practice whatever the hell you do. — Ray Charles

Drunken talk isn't meant to be printed in the paper. — Ray Charles

Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory. — Ray Charles

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. — Ray Charles

Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day. — Charles Churchill

I was born with music inside me — Ray Charles

It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good. — Ray Charles

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal. — Ray Charles

When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500. — Ahmet Ertegun

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music. — Ahmet Ertegun

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett. — Donald Fagen

Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming. — Ray Charles

Me? I'm the original sad man. I read a book and it makes me sad. See a film: sad. Plays? they really work me over. — Ray Bradbury

I've always been the kind of person who, if there's anything that can kill me, I want to know something about it. — Ray Charles

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor. — Ray Charles

Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women. — Ray Charles

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day. — Ray Charles