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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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"Whatever you do gives you the name it gives."
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Personal Development
"The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about."
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"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."
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"There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous."
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"Biblical names are hot again."
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"I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive."
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"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."
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"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."
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"I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible."
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"I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop."
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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."
Guitar
"The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy."
Body
"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."
Father
"It doesn't take me long to write songs."
Music
"I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on."
Music
"At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart."
Time
"I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes."
Career
"It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing."
Life
"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
"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
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