Ben E. King
Ben E. King
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 September 1938
CountryUnited States of America
clothes keys legends
I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
sorry kids feelings
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.
careers mets extremely-happy
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.
song successful feelings
I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is going to be like this for the rest of my life and I knew that what, what they were doing was going to be successful because with each session that we would do, it would get better and better and better, the songs would become better, the, ah, the feeling of success was there and we were all in the middle of that as well.
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.
friendship fall sea
If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me.
cheating thinking careers
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.
marketing records different
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.
I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing.
funny-travel yeah fortunate
Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.
song writing guitar
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.
writing stand-by-me how-you-feel
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.
fun crowns records
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.
nice guy littles
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.