The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don’t want heard, then they have power over you.
BEN FOLDSI look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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I don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…
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The piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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White people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.
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When someone really goes to tell you something about what they’re thinking, they’re going to wear that experience with them. That’s what you have to share.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don’t ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.
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I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.
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I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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I’m older than I was, and I’m still washed-up, and I haven’t changed my music one iota. It’s just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
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Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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