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• I'm a songwriter first, have always been, and probably always will be. Making the demo is a natural product of writing a song; after that, I'm happy to hear other people do it in other ways.
  • As quoted in "Will you still love me tomorrow?" by Rachel Louis Snyder in Salon (19 June 1999)

• The song is the center; the song is the key. If you don't have a good song you don't have anything by my value.
  • As quoted in "The King is Still Alive" in The Birmingham Post [England] (6 November 2001)

Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1961)

Co-written with Gerry Goffin

• Tonight You're mine completely,
  You give your love so sweetly
  Tonight the light of love is in your eyes,
  But will you love me tomorrow?

• I'd like to know that your love
  Is love I can be sure of,
  So tell me now and I won't ask again,
  Will you still love me tomorrow?

Tapestry (1971)

• I feel the earth move under my feet
  I feel the sky tumbling down — tumbling down
  I feel my heart start to trembling
  Whenever you're around
  • I Feel the Earth Move

• You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
  And show the world all the love in your heart
  The people gonna treat you better,
  You're gonna find, yes you will,
  That you're beautiful as you feel.
  • Beautiful

• If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
  Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.
  • Beautiful

• Way over yonder is a place I have seen
  In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
  • Way Over Yonder

• Way over yonder, that's where I'm bound.
  • Way Over Yonder

• When you're down and troubled
  And you need some loving care
  And nothing, nothing is going right.
  Close your eyes and think of me
  And soon I will be there
  To brighten up even your darkest nights.
  • You've Got a Friend

• You just call out my name
  And you know wherever I am
  I'll come running to see you again.
  Winter, spring, summer, or fall
  All you have to do is call
  And I'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
  You've got a friend.
  • You've Got a Friend

• You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.
  • Smackwater Jack

• Now ain't it good to know
  That you've got a friend
  When People can be so cold.
  They'll hurt you, kiss and desert you.
  And take your soul if you let them.
  Oh, but don't you let them.
  • You've Got a Friend

• My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue
  An everlasting vision of the everchanging view
  A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold
  A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.
  • Tapestry

• He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
  Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
  Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
  And his hand come down empty...
  • Tapestry

• It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell
  And I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well.
  • Tapestry

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• I want to connect with people; I want to make people think "Yeah, that's how I feel." And if I can do that, that's an accomplishment.

Misattributed

• And it's too late, baby, now it's too late
  Though we really did try to make it
  Somethin' inside has died and I can't hide
  And I just can't fake it.
  • Though King wrote the music for "It's Too Late", the lyrics were entirely written by Toni Stern.