“I release feelings inside me through my songs. I take some of the sadness, some of the heartache, and turn it out. I’m able to stave off the severity. By expressing myself in music, I can soften the blow. But those melodies and rhythms can only do so much.”
"Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap."
- Ray Charles
Love
"I hear like you see – like that hummingbird outside that window for instance."
- Ray Charles
Awareness
"I release feelings inside me through my songs. I take some of the sadness, some of the heartache, and turn it out."
- Ray Charles
Creativity
"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
Belief in Self
"Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond."
- Ray Charles
Empowerment
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity