More From Ray Charles
- "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."
- "Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap."
- "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."
More In Famous
- "On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I’m not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships."― Eberhard Weber
- "It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich."― Alan Alda
- "What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn’t real."― Jean Claude Van Damme