In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls fo...
BEN E. KING I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating s...
BEN E. KING Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on s...
BEN E. KING The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious ...
BEN E. KING One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute w...
BEN E. KING It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sin...
BEN E. KING When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, ...
BEN E. KING I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
BEN E. KING The thing I love is when some of them have 15 dancers. Everyone's jumping and falling and bubbling a...
BEN E. KING We used to record with string sections, so it's like going back to that time.
BEN E. KING At least they'll know that we're still out there on this earth, still making music.
BEN E. KING I hate it when they make them sing after they get kicked off. Why turn the knife?
BEN E. KING I don't think we have the quality talent that we did back then. We were more raw. These days you hav...
BEN E. KING One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,00...
BEN E. KING When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put o...
BEN E. KING It doesn't take me long to write songs.
BEN E. KING The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a ...
BEN E. KING Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name a...
BEN E. KING Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep p...
BEN E. KING Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write ou...
BEN E. KING It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with q...
BEN E. KING And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the s...
BEN E. KING The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.
BEN E. KING We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked ...
BEN E. KING He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His...
BEN E. KING You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It ...
BEN E. KING If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is th...
BEN E. KING Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.
BEN E. KING I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
BEN E. KING At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.
BEN E. KING I would really enjoy getting to go to some of their games. I think it would be awesome to see them i...
BEN KING That's interesting. I never thought of it that way. You have to take that into account.
BEN KING I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe...
STEPHEN KING Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
STEPHEN KING If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin...
STEPHEN KING People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressin...
TED KING I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ...
TED KING I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
TED KING I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the ...
TED KING Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a ...
TABITHA KING Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
TABITHA KING In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe...
TABITHA KING Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
TABITHA KING Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo...
TABITHA KING Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
STEPHEN KING I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th...
STEPHEN KING You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long a...
STEPHEN KING When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
STEPHEN KING The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
STEPHEN KING Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
STEPHEN KING We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
STEPHEN KING People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ...
STEPHEN KING I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn&#...
GAYLE KING I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is tota...
KAKI KING Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the ...
KAKI KING I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always wr...
KAKI KING I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be ...
KAKI KING I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want t...
KAKI KING I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
KAKI KING I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and...
KAKI KING The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning...
KAKI KING I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being ...
KAKI KING I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, th...
KAKI KING I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
KAKI KING Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
KAKI KING I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get of...
KAKI KING There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I&...
KAKI KING Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I ch...
KAKI KING We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, ei...
KAKI KING You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can't really fuel your creative existence a...
KAKI KING A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!
STEVE KING Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
DON KING If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think '...
KERRY KING Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KING Get busy living, or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it ...
LARRY KING My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now...
LARRY KING People would pay money to work at CNN.
LARRY KING I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bon...
LARRY KING I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions,...
LARRY KING I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative ...
LARRY KING If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
LARRY KING When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don...
LARRY KING I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the ...
LARRY KING I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jeal...
LARRY KING I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hon...
LARRY KING I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
LARRY KING Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through...
LARRY KING I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dan...
LARRY KING You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you c...
LARRY KING Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern j...
LARRY KING I just love asking questions. I love people. It's in my DNA. I'm cursed - and blessed.
LARRY KING I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
LARRY KING Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
LARRY KING The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting bu...
LARRY KING I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that ...
LARRY KING It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an eas...
LARRY KING I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
LARRY KING The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
STEPHEN KING I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a pos...
RODNEY KING I followed a guy to Denmark. I came home with a broken heart.
ELLE KING Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at s...
KING SOLOMON I fantasized being a broadcaster.
LARRY KING I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
EARL KING I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
EARL KING Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I ...
EARL KING If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kin...
EARL KING I like to write a lot of satire.
EARL KING I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to ...
GAYLE KING If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
DON KING I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the tr...
JAIME KING In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.
KING VIDOR secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in...
STEPHEN KING Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ...
STEPHEN KING My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo...
DON KING Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism wit...
FLORENCE KING Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalme...
FLORENCE KING Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
FLORENCE KING Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning...
FLORENCE KING