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.
BEN FOLDSI’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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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I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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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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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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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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 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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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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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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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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