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"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great."
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"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."
"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning."
"I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path."
"We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this."
"I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere."
"The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships."
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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."
"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."
"Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap."
"There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, "If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.""
"I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing."
"The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done."
"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."
"Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor."
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