Quote by Ray Charles
I did it to myself. It wasnt society... it wasnt a pusher, it wasn

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

Other quotes by Ray Charles

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water. – Ray Charles

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Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor. – Ray Charles

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If youre not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you cant think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left. – Robert Sternberg

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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. – Robert Bork

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As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in. – Annie Lennox

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The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. – Joe Biden

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Well, foods always the way to anybodys heart, I think, guy or girl. – Josh Hutcherson

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The only thing you take with you when youre gone is what you leave behind. – John Allston

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