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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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"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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"Dread of night. Dread of not-night."
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"I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights."
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"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."
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"You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long."
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"The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night."
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"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."
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"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."
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"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters."
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"I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again."
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"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."
Artist
"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
"Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place."
Travel
"And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street."
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
"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
"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."
Feelings
"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."
Name
"It doesn't take me long to write songs."
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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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