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Ben E. King

"We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again."

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"We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again."

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Akshay Vasu

"I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow."

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Akshay Vasu

"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."

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Akshay Vasu

"Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise."

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Akshay Vasu

"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."

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Akshay Vasu

"I was a master at keeping my feelings in."

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Akshay Vasu

"To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself."

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Akshay Vasu

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."

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Akshay Vasu

"My feelings about myself have been terrible."

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Akshay Vasu

"If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up."

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Akshay Vasu

"I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling."

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Ben E. King
"I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians."

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Ben E. King
"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."

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Ben E. King
"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."

People

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Ben E. King
"We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again."

Feelings

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Ben E. King
"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."

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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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Ben E. King
"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."

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Ben E. King
"He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies."

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

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