Ray Charles Quotes
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Ray Charles Quotes & Sayings
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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
If you can play the blues, you can do anything.
— Ray Charles
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
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
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
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
I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.
— 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 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
Art Tatum he was a genius. And Einstein, not me. — Ray Charles
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
— Ray Charles
Next time we meet again, let's play doctor
— Charles Sheehan-Miles
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
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
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
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
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
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
