Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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We always make music and continue to make hits.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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To me it's all about textures, and that's the side of music that I'm finding really exciting. I feel like it's one of the only parts of music that mankind hasn't fully discovered yet.
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I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked back to the Velvet Underground and the Stooges and the Modern Lovers as well. But that was back when Television were punk, and the Talking Heads were punk.
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'Compromise is necessary,' Max agreed, 'so long as you never give up who you are. That isn’t compromise; that’s spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.'
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
