Ray Charles Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
-
I have learned to be patient.
-
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
-
I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
-
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
-
I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
-
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
-
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
-
We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
-
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
-
Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
-
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
-
I'm not a babysitter.
-
No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
-
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
-
Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
-
Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
-
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
-
Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.
-
Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership.
-
What I really like about 'Grit' - especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says 'Never Give Up' and who truly tries to live his life to that credo - we recruited 16 people who said, 'I will never give up.' And the only way they can leave the contest is by doing the one thing they said they never would.
-
I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that view on a Web site somewhere. Third-world villagers without electricity have cellphones.
-
I didn't think he had good legs. He told me in the fourth quarter he was going to get hot, that he felt like he was getting in his rhythm, and he hit in a few in the fourth quarter. But, he was really bothered by Bell. He did a great job on him.
-
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.
