Ben E. King Quotes

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• Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.
• I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
• I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
• And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.
• 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…
• Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but…
• If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't…
• When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no,…
• I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing.
• It doesn't take me long to write songs.
• It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
• The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.
• If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that…
• Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You…
• 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.…
• The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell…
• 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…
• Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't…
• I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.
• 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…

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