Quote by Ray Charles
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develo

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. – Ray Charles

Other quotes by Ray Charles

I did it to myself. It wasnt society… it wasnt a pusher, it wasnt being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. – Ray Charles

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Society
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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. – Ray Charles

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Music
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Musics been around a long time, and theres going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If its a big record, thats the frosting on the cake, but musics the main meal. – Ray Charles

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Other Quotes from
Learning
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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. – Neil Gaiman

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Learning

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldnt learn something from him. – Galileo Galilei

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Learning

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now Im learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, I cant go to Kmart. I cant take my kids to the haunted house. – Eminem

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Learning

Deficiency motivation doesnt work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are. – Wayne Dyer

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Learning

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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future. – Alan Dundes

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Evolution: that last step was a doozy! – Terri Guillemets, 1988 September, biology journal

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Humankind

History is the story of events, with praise or blame. – Cotton Mather

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I remember we woke up one morning at Dennys house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, whats wrong, whats going on? He said, well, everybodys dead over at Sharons house at Terry Melchers place. – Barry McGuire

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