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

"Feelings have the divine attracting power. Feelings are the only link between you and everything around you."

"It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling."

"I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better."

"In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself."
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"And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it."

"I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes."

"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."
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