"The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make."

-- Booker T. Jones

#Player Quotes #Trying Quotes #Rays Quotes

“My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.”
“I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very Glee.”
“For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.”
“giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go”
“There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.”
“I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.”
“Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on Â… the world of beauty around us.”
“It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.”

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