Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
BEN FOLDSNow that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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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.
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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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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I’ve gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.
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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.
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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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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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I feel like a quote out of context.
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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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The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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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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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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