Ray Charles Quotes

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

Music has always been in me.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't.

You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever... but with me it just happens.

For man is by nature an artist.

I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.

My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

I'm an unbelievable designer. I don't know how I know and just do these things. I just start sketching and then I just know the colors and I always know the forecast. I know green and purple are going to be hot. I was born to be a designer. I worked hard to be a tennis player, I don't work hard to be a designer.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.