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’ve gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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Everyone, when you’re a teenager and you’re growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it’s not.
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If I’m in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don’t need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.
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I’m not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there’s other people who like it too.
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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can’t make myself finish something unless I am forced
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My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that’s the right song to not fight the lyric.
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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’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f – king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That’s really tempting.
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The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
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It’s a tough thing to know that when you’re making your album, you’re going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
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