Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is bei….

I sing what I sing true. Each night I sing it the way I feel that night..

I don't think any of us really knows why we're here. But I think we're supposed to believe we're here for a purpose..

If somebody don't like something that I do, that's his or her prerogative. Just like it's mine..

When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had….

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

I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had ….

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that..

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate.

When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now - that those items were His concern. Early on….

Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you..

Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano..

All my life I've always been so blue, born to lose, and now I'm losing you..

You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to your limits..

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music..

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow..

Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the th….

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice..

If you can play the blues, you can do anything..

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