Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
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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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.
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It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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The Steelers run a great organization.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
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No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'
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Everybody loves a good Christmas song if you do it right.
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You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.
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I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
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It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.
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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
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The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.
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I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people, if they are feeling like they are confused, need to know that there are people to talk to and that there are places they can go and not feel alone. But I feel that they have just as many rights as I do to not be bullied.
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I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.
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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.
