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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

It doesn’t take me long to write songs.
BEN E. KING

Long Song Writing
I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.
BEN E. KING

Chose Felt Music
I never even visualized for a second doing what I’m doing.
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Doing Second Visualized
I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
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Comedians Comedy Time Work
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
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
In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when I was a kid and, ah, gospel.
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County Excited Involve Kids Less
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.
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Careers Extremely Happy Mets
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
There was no, there was no in between. And when I got to New York all the other musics that’s in the world just came into my head whether it was the classics, jazz, I never knew what jazz was about all, had heard anything about jazz.
BEN E. KING

Between Country Music Other
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?
BEN E. KING

Artist Song Writing
A singer has got a different attitude, they’re they’re so whacked out they don’t know what they’re doing half the time. Singers, they don’t, they’re spoiled too.
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Attitude Half Singer
I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
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Clothes Keys Legends
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

Gone People Talking
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
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

Kids Kings Song

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.

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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.

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