70 Quotes by Ben E. King

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

I don't think we have the quality talent that we did back then. We were more raw. These days you have everybody wanting to sound like everybody else.

You do your show, gather up your little equipment and we get on the bus. You have your little area, and they have their little area.

The thing I love is when some of them have 15 dancers. Everyone's jumping and falling and bubbling around. It's a distraction.

At least they'll know that we're still out there on this earth, still making music.

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won’t be afraid, no, I won’t be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

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.

I don’t care what studio I’m in, I don’t care what producers is producing it and I don’t care what song it is because they taught me those things I feel so protected wherever I go as far as music.

You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it’s either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won’t be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.