Ray Charles Quotes
Music has been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
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The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
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You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music.
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
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I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
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A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
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People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.
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Music has been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
