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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."
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"One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed."
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"At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space."
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"There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another."
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"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."
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"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."
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"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."
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"Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now."
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"There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink."
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"I wasn't angry the night I shot him."
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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."
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"I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians."
Work
"At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart."
Time
"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
"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."
People
"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
"I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes."
Career
"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
"It doesn't take me long to write songs."
Music
"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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"And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street."
People
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