Ben E. King Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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".

  Ben E. King

  Song, Writing, Artist

• 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.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Simple, Years

• It doesn't take me long to write songs.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Writing, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a sudden a song is writing itself, I'm just putting down words. It just seem each line that you put down flows with the other ones. It's like writing a love letter you don't think about it, it's something from the heart.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Writing, Heart

• Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Kings, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is going to be like this for the rest of my life and I knew that what, what they were doing was going to be successful because with each session that we would do, it would get better and better and better, the songs would become better, the, ah, the feeling of success was there and we were all in the middle of that as well.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Successful, Feelings

• 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.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• If you just concentrate on what you're doing and allow yourself to actually enjoy and let your feelings come out, whatever the tempos, whatever the rhythms, whatever the songs, 9 out of 10 times it will work.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Feelings, Enjoy

• 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.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Taught, Care

• I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Writing, Creating

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