Zitate und Sprüche von Ray Charles

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

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.

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

Rockin' around the Christmas tree
At the Christmas party hop
Mistletoe hung where you can see
Every couple tries to stop

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

Things are tough all over, cupcake. An' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike... except in California.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

You really cannot set a standard, because Georgia is my home state, my home team. No other team can match what Georgia can offer. Schools cannot really match that, so that is an edge for Georgia.

The ridiculousness of thinking that some sort of global Illuminati wrote down their plot for killing of 95 % of humanity on a giant granit post-it note and left their secret plan somewhere no conservative would ever find it: rural Georgia.

In Texas, it's football. In Georgia, football. There's an appreciation from the average person about football more than anywhere else. And we have that for basketball in New York. And we'll always have that in New York.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

Georgia girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

For one, the 'countryness' is pretty much in my blood. I'm from Georgia, down south. That voice just lives in me.

Home is where the heart is and the heart is in Georgia.

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

Having a solo career is a funny thing.

The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.