Quotation by

Ray Charles

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

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Ray Charles is saying that music is an essential and natural part of his being, as vital to him as his own organs and blood. He feels that music was already deeply inside him from birth and is as necessary for his survival as basic needs like food and water.

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