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You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Baby Connect Connection Passion
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The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

Days First Half Including
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Really, each part, each one of us, I think, has our role, but I think for Joe, he really stands out and has that Mick Jagger-esque feel to him.

Each Each One Feel He
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Moms are sometimes the craziest because they know they want to get their daughters to be seen by us or get an autograph.

Autograph Because Craziest Daughters
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For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Darkness Gets Healing Hurt
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At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

Because Celebrating Family Friends
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I think it's a wonderful time for a woman.
IThink Think Time Woman
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I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

About Bothered Come Deal
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My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

Alive Ask Close Daddy
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I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Famous Great Never Only
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The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

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

Becomes Cheap Love Love Is
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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 wat

Arrived Blood Born Food
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Affluence Any Borrow Flour
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Buried Childhood Darkest Dug
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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.

Being Black Blind Did
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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.

Became Big Big Thing Declaring
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I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

Able Been Happened Hear
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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.

After Around Been Behind
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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.

Electricity Force Know Light
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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

Believe Bible Going Me
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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.

Approach Blues Country Country
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Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory

Braille Damn Develop Ear
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Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
Academy Highest Honor Life
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So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you.

Come Getting Going IThink
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I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

Because Car CDs Everybody
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

Demos Finished FinishedProduct Going
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Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.
Around Besides Gypsy Heart
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So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

Fun ILove Lessons Lot
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And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

After Band Crew Diego
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And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

Airport Asleep Brother Diego
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We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

Determined Listen Illegal congress
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Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!

Mad Hope Bite Other general
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I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.

Bit Came Come Dallas
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Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

About Crash Doubted Even
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If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

Greatest man World
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I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

Spend money War Science Pleasant
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The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.

Die Colonies Submit Retreat
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Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.

Born Educated Glory
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To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Bad Good GoodAndBad GoodOnes
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A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.

Traitor Everyone Agree
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Love Emotion Experienced
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Man reserves Deepest love Company
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Love demands Friendship
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Officials Elected Good citizen
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I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

Get Going He Hey
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A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

Man Love Woman Comfort
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Contradict myself Improve wonderfully
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I drink to make other people interesting.

Drink People interesting
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I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.
Any Ashamed Country IThink
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