I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
BEN FOLDSThe nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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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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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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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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 always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can’t make myself finish something unless I am forced
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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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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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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 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 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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