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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.

  Ray Charles

  Stupid, Generosity, Giving

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.169, Da Capo Press

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

  Ray Charles

  Sadness, Contentment, Too Much

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

  Ray Charles

  Music, Memories, Play

  "Quotes: Ray Charles in His Own Words", www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2004.

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• When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.

  Ray Charles

  Spiritual, Religious, Singing

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• When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now - that those items were His concern. Early on, I figured I better begin to learn how to count on myself, instead of counting on supernatural forces.

  Ray Charles

  Prayer, Supernatural Forces, Blind

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.25, Da Capo Press

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• I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

  Ray Charles

  Music, People, Bullshit

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• You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb or oceans to swim. I've been an extremely blessed individual. ... I'm not clamorin' for more trinkets. If I were to die tomorrow, I could say I've had a good life.

  Ray Charles

  Good Life, Ocean, Blessed

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

  Ray Charles

  Eye, Vision, Able

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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

  Play, Piano, Buckets

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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

  Ray Charles

  Weed, Home, Long

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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.

  Ray Charles

  Work, Each Day, Dry

  Song: Busted

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• I sing what I sing true. Each night I sing it the way I feel that night.

  Ray Charles

  Night, Way, Feels

  Source: blankonblank.org

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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.

  Ray Charles

  Song, Believe, Learning

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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.

  Ray Charles

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• 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

  Genius, Legends, Said

  Source: blankonblank.org

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

  Ray Charles

  Music, Roots, Childhood

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.111, Da Capo Press

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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.

  Ray Charles

  Country, Men, Special

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

  Ray Charles

  Blue, Low Self Esteem, Losing

  Song: Born To Lose

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

  Ray Charles

  Like Something, Mines, Prerogative

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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.

  Ray Charles

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Done

  Los Angeles Times, 1989.

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

  Ray Charles

  Years, Honor, Music Is My Life

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• Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.

  Ray Charles

  Art, Genius

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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.

  Ray Charles

  Fall, Play, Guy

  Source: blankonblank.org

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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.

  Ray Charles

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• 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

  Anchors, Needs, Sensitive

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (1978). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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