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"It doesn't take me long to write songs."
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"The heavenly sound of music kindles my heart, twinkles my mind, and feeds my soul so that I may transcend and transform."
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"I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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