Quotes of: Ray-charles Keyword

Ray Charles: You told me to find my own voice.

Ray

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

Steve Earle

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

Daniel Barenboim

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

Robert Wyatt

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

E. W. Howe

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

E. W. Howe

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

Rosecrans Baldwin

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

Tea Obreht

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

Warren Moon

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

Norah Jones

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

William Empson

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warner

When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.

Linda Grant

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

Pat Conroy

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.

Daphne Guinness

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

Daniel Barenboim

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

Joe Cocker

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

Della Reese

From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.

Eleanor Catton

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

Cathy Marie Buchanan