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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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"I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be "up"."

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

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"I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again."

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

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"There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage."

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"I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man."

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"I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again."

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"You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on."

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"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."

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"It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing."
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"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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"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."
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"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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"Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place."
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"And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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"It doesn't take me long to write songs."
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