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Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
I was born with music inside me.
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
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.
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
Music is nothing separate from me. It is me. I can't retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. You'd have to remove the music from me surgically — like you were taking out my appendix.
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
I know that men ain't supposed to cry, but I think that's wrong. Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
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.
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)