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Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They’re not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

Ben E. King

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
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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Feelings Kids Sorry
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.
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Gone People Talking
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
It doesn’t take me long to write songs.
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Long Song Writing
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
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
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 never even visualized for a second doing what I’m doing.
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Doing Second Visualized
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
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
I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
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Comedians Comedy Time Work
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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Chance Heart Realizing
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

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They’re not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

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Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They’re not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

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