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Ben E. King quotes

American Musician September 28, 1938

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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 I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here. Ben E. King
Ben E. King quote: "It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that..."
It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing. Ben E. King
Ben E. King quote: "I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With..."
I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on. Ben E. King
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. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that. Ben E. King
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
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 kid's movie. It would be too heavy. Ben E. King
Ben E. King quote: "Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around..."
Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place. Ben E. King
It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do. Ben E. King
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 were almost in a little restricted area there. Ben E. King
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 they'll never know the true feeling that we did. Ben E. King
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 that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted. Ben E. King
Ben E. King quote: "At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did...."
At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart. Ben E. King
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
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
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

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