But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
BEN FOLDSI want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I’m sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don’t do that, I’ve hamstrung the melody.
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Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
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In many ways, I’ve chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don’t like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.
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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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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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The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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I’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I’m writing. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it’s okay. I don’t think it’s good for my liver, but I do love it. It’s a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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