Ray Charles Quotes

Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right

Don't go backwards - you've already been there.

Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

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.

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.

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

What I've got to live up to, is being myself. If I do that, the rest will take care of itself.

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 never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

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.

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.

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

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.

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.

Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.

Goodbye don't mean gone.

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.