Ray Charles Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• 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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

  Ray Charles

  Rain, Heart, Sadness

• I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.

  Ray Charles

  Song, Believe, Learning

• I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate to; my stuff was filled with more despair than anything you'd associate with rock 'n' roll. Since I couldn't see people dancing, I didn't write jitterbugs or twists. I wrote rhythms that moved me. My style requires pure heart singing.

  Ray Charles

  Teenager, Writing, Heart

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the years for being black and everything else, without actually saying a word about it.

  Ray Charles

  Song, Lying, Struggle

• Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.

  Ray Charles

  Country, Real, Heart

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.9, Da Capo Press

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