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Ray Charles Quotes
«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.»
Author: Ray Charles
(Pianist, Singer)
| Keywords:
bottom line, decent, meal, sleeping car, sleep in, the bottom line
«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.»
«My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.»
«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.»
Author: Ray Charles
(Pianist, Singer)
| Keywords:
and so forth, blues, country music, jazz, utility, utility man
«I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the years for being black and everything else, without actually saying a word about it.»
«Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.»
«I loved those cats at Atlantic. They were the only record guys who never told me what to do. Ahmet (Ertegun) let me do what I wanted to do and I loved him for that.»
«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.»