70 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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.

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

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.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

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.

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.