Ben E. King Quotes

I never even visualized for a second doing what I’m doing.

The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.

It doesn’t take me long to write songs.

Yeah. I’m amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don’t play well at all. I wouldn’t even attempt for a second to play in public.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

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

The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid‘s movie. It would be too heavy.

Yeah. I’ve been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

At that time, we were in charge. We didn’t ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.

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.

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.

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.

You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It’s part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that.

It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that’s with quite a few changes. It’s not really a hard thing for me to do.