Quotes by Ray Charles

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

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"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."

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"Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond."

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

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