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Ray Charles Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004

Topics

Music Childhood Roots Soil My Own

I was forged in the crucible of want, and because of that, I consider myself far more privileged than people who had everything.

Myself People Want More Everything

I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

Disappointment World Routine Want

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

Volunteer Asian Lived Film Festival

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

Friendship Friends You Find Done

I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the setup. I don't want to see it. I just want to go, 'God, how did you do that?'

God Me Angel Friends You Want

This epidemic of student demands for 'safe places' to protect against threatening words and ideas would make a great science fiction film, but unbelievably, events seem to be outpacing the political imagination.

Science Great Imagination Words

Most men are not that evolved.

Rosanna Arquette

Men Most Evolved

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

Work Amazing Early Her Most Some

Each book develops a strong organic shape. And when that shape is complete, the book is complete. I don't know where the end is. I don't start at the beginning. It's like playing Tetris in my head in a very slow kind of way. All the shapes join up.

Beginning Start Book Strong Slow

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

Christina Ricci

Myself Think Always Embarrassed

Spin class is the best for your core!

Best Class Core Spin Your

It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the Dark' in completely new genres. As an artist and writer, it's the highest compliment we can be paid.

Cool Song Artist Dark New Piano

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