Ray Stevens quotes:

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  • The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

  • George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

  • I saw Louis Armstrong perform at Albany State College on Radio Springs Road. He was probably the first famous individual I saw in concert. Unfortunately, I never did get to meet him.

  • If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.

  • I just love music in general. I've been a fan of all different kinds of music since I can remember.

  • I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

  • I originally passed on Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

  • They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.

  • Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.

  • I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.

  • Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called 'Raunchy.'

  • I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing harmony with Waylon Jennings on a few songs that were hits. Chet Atkins always put me up so high that I strained to hit every note. It was a lot of fun.

  • I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

  • I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.

  • Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called Raunchy.

  • I'm a terrible trumpet player.

  • People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

  • Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.

  • Whatever you think, don't never, unless you will.

  • I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

  • Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?

  • Everything is beautiful in its own way.

  • Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day. And everybody's beautiful in their own way. Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find the way.

  • I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

  • Take your love and put it where the sun don't shine.

  • There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

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