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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.
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Done Guy Nice
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 won’t be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.
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Dark Friendship Moon
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
I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.
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Chose Felt Music
It doesn’t take me long to write songs.
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Long Song Writing
Yeah. I’ve been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.
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Funny Travel Travel Yeah
I never even visualized for a second doing what I’m doing.
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Doing Second Visualized
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn’t pursue it. I feel like I’m cheating sometimes.
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Career Cheating Thinking
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
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
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.
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Crowns Fun Records
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
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
I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
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Comedians Comedy Time Work
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.
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Distance Journey Next
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

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