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Ben E. King

"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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"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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Akshay Vasu

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

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"I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad."

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Akshay Vasu

"The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events."

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Akshay Vasu

"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."

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Akshay Vasu

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

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Akshay Vasu

"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."

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Akshay Vasu

"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."

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Akshay Vasu

"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."

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Akshay Vasu

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

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Akshay Vasu

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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Ben E. King
"I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians."

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Ben E. King
"At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart."

Time

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Ben E. King
"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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Ben E. King
"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."

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Ben E. King
"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."

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Ben E. King
"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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Ben E. King
"I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes."

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Ben E. King
"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."

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Ben E. King
"It doesn't take me long to write songs."

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Ben E. King
"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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