Ray Charles Quotes

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

My heart and soul is still music.

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

I love music; it's my passion.

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

I love music so much; I've always played.

I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.

Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than just to play.

Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.

I love her. My piano. play the sh*t outta her.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.