The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
BEN FOLDSBecause I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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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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I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.
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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Everyone 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.
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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
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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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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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