166 Quotes by Ray Charles

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

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears / While we all sup sorrow with the poor / There's a song that will linger forever in our ears / Oh, hard times, come again no more

Tis the song, the sigh of the weary / Hard times, hard times, come again no more / Many a days you have lingered around my cabin door / Oh, hard times, come again no more

While we seek mirth and beauty and music, light and gay / There are frail forms fainting at the door / Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say / Oh, hard times, come again no more

My mother told me / 'Fore she passed away / Said son when I'm gone / Don't forget to pray / Cause there'll be hard times / Lord those hard times / Who knows better than I?

Well I soon found out / Just what she meant / When I had to pawn my clothes / Just to pay the rent

I had a woman / Who was always around / But when I lost my money / She put me down

Night time is the right time, to be with the one you love.

Don't you talk about God! You have any idea how it feels to go blind and still be afraid of the dark? And every day, you stand and pray just for a little light, and you don't get nothing. Cause God don't listen to people like me.