I divorce myself from listeners who aren’t tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it’s all right, and then they go out.
BEN FOLDSA lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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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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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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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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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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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You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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People aren’t going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They’d rather just have the martini.
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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