Ben E. King
Ben E. King
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 September 1938
CountryUnited States of America
honesty people streets
And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.
song writing thinking
I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about? It's something that, songwriters just write songs. It's like an artist that paints. They paint what they feel. It's not, it's not about how many of these painting I'll sell it's just how they feel at the moment. And that's how I wrote "Stand By Me".
distance journey next
One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.
cheating thinking careers
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.
people time-of-my-life particular
It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
song writing creating
I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.
song writing guitar
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.
want industry
The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.
vegas las-vegas comedian
I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
attitude half singers
A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're spoiled too.
careers mets extremely-happy
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.
sorry kids feelings
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.
funny-travel yeah fortunate
Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.
song simple years
I'm a songwriter. So I'm OK. But when I wrote "Stand By Me" as a song and to know that the song will probably be here for hundred and hundreds of years to come, it's great, you know. And it was just simple lyrics.