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Ben E King Quotes
And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street. - Ben E King Quotes
At that time, we were in charge. We didnt ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart. - Ben E King Quotes
But, to complete a song could take weeks. - Ben E King Quotes
He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies. - Ben E King Quotes
I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians. - Ben E King Quotes
I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on. - Ben E King Quotes
I never even visualized for a second doing what Im doing. - Ben E King Quotes
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didnt pursue it. I feel like Im cheating sometimes. - Ben E King Quotes
If theres anything about the business that I love and that Im extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here. - Ben E King Quotes
In this country, we do a lot of hotel venues, and we do Fairs. We do joint concerts at stadiums with The Four Tops or The Temptations or Natalie Cole. - Ben E King Quotes
It doesnt take me long to write songs. - Ben E King Quotes
It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing. - Ben E King Quotes
It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and thats with quite a few changes. Its not really a hard thing for me to do. - Ben E King Quotes
Many times Ive gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there. - Ben E King Quotes
Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist. - Ben E King Quotes
One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance. - Ben E King Quotes
One of the members of the group, I cant remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it. - Ben E King Quotes
The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy whos very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything hes ever done has always been charted. - Ben E King Quotes
The industry now wants to be in charge of everything. - Ben E King Quotes
The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kids movie. It would be too heavy. - Ben E King Quotes
Those things dont happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but theyll never know the true feeling that we did. - Ben E King Quotes
We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasnt programmed. It wasnt asked for. It wasnt structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I dont think the industry would allow that to happen again. - Ben E King Quotes
When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing. - Ben E King Quotes
When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us. - Ben E King Quotes
Yeah. Im amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I dont play well at all. I wouldnt even attempt for a second to play in public. - Ben E King Quotes
Yeah. Ive been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place. - Ben E King Quotes
You do your show, gather up your little equipment and we get on the bus. You have your little area, and they have their little area. - Ben E King Quotes
You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. Its part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that. - Ben E King Quotes
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