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"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great."
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"You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!"
"Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here."
"I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous."
"It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey."
"But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom."
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"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."
"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."
"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."
"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.""
"The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done."
"My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching."
"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."
"What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room."
"Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap."
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