Im really good at writing almost hits.
BEN FOLDSNotes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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 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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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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 want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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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Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I’m sarcastic, it’s quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest.
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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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Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
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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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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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When someone really goes to tell you something about what they’re thinking, they’re going to wear that experience with them. That’s what you have to share.
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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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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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I’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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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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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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My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that’s the right song to not fight the lyric.
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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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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