166 Quotes by Ray Charles

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

Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.

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

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.

I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.