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"I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes."
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"And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street."
People
"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."
Work
"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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"I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on."
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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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"The industry now wants to be in charge of everything."
Now
"It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing."
Life
"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."
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"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."
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"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."
Night
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