Ben E. King
Ben E. King
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 September 1938
CountryUnited States of America
heart black ears
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.
fake different records
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.
song writing 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? 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".
cheating thinking careers
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.
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.
vegas las-vegas comedian
I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
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 writing long
It doesn't take me long to write songs.
clothes keys legends
I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
friendship dark moon
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.
felt
I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.
bubbling falling jumping love
The thing I love is when some of them have 15 dancers. Everyone's jumping and falling and bubbling around. It's a distraction.
days everybody quality sound talent wanting
I don't think we have the quality talent that we did back then. We were more raw. These days you have everybody wanting to sound like everybody else.
became contract dollars five hundred signed took
When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.