Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
BEN FOLDSEverybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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 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.
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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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Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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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 think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
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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 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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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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The piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily.
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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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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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The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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