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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.

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
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
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

Chance Heart Realizing
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.
BEN E. KING

Dark Friendship Moon
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
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
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.
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Kids Kings Song
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 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
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
I never even visualized for a second doing what I’m doing.
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Doing Second Visualized
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
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

Black Ears Heart
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
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

Done Guy Nice
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.
BEN E. KING

Breathing Long Proud

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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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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