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.
BEN FOLDSThe nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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