Ray Charles Quotes

If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

Burzum is a projection of me or, at the very least, a projection of a side of me, but you can, of course, view Burzum and Varg as separate entities, as you surely can like the first and dislike the other, or vice versa for that sake, but to me, my music will always be a natural part of me.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.

Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I'm not performing a song: I'm becoming it.

When someone gives you a piece of music, they are really giving you a piece of themselves.

I'm the most comfortable when I'm at home resting doing nothing.I feel the most myself when I'm with music.

If you want to know me, listen to my music.

Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours himself forth much more naturally in self-chosen and connected thoughts before God, and scarcely requires words at all. Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me that if I relied solely on creating a voice out of the music, then I might be able to reach something more profound.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Music is the can-opener of the soul.