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You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it’s either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won’t be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.

Ben E. King

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
BEN E. KING

Clothes Keys Legends
One of the hardest things in the world is to perform on record and get someone to enjoy and feel what you’re doing. It’s unlike, like TV you can, you can fake it with the face and the crying and the bits. Recording is completely different.
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Different Fake Record
If you just concentrate on what you’re doing and allow yourself to actually enjoy and let your feelings come out, whatever the tempos, whatever the rhythms, whatever the songs, 9 out of 10 times it will work.
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Enjoy Feelings Song
I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.
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Creating Song Writing
Yeah. I’ve been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.
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Funny Travel Travel Yeah
The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.
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Change Everything Industry Want
I think that the song, the song “Stand By Me” is one of those songs that… and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about?
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Artist Song Writing
It’s something that, songwriters just write songs. It’s like an artist that paints. They paint what they feel. It’s not, it’s not about how many of these painting I’ll sell it’s just how they feel at the moment. And that’s how I wrote “Stand By Me”.
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Artist Paint Painting Sell Songwriter
It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
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Particular People Time Of My Life
It’s a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you’re marketing yourself for that direction.
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Different Marketing Records
And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.
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Honesty People Streets
I still perform it in all my shows. I’ll do it as long as I’m breathing. I’m so proud it has stood the test of time.
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Breathing Long Proud
You’re writing it is how you feel. And when you’re finished you put your signature on it and you mail it off and that’s it. And that’s how “Stand By Me” was really.
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Feel Stand Writing Yo
I’m a songwriter. So I’m OK. But when I wrote “Stand By Me” as a song and to know that the song will probably be here for hundred and hundreds of years to come, it’s great, you know. And it was just simple lyrics.
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Simple Song Years
I never even visualized for a second doing what I’m doing.
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Doing Second Visualized
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.
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Done Guy Nice

You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it’s either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won’t be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.

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You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it’s either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won’t be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.

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