If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
BEN FOLDSEveryone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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I do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
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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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Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I’m sarcastic, it’s quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest.
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I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don’t know what to say sometimes. I’m professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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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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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 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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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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I 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.
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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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