You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
BEN FOLDSNotes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don’t ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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It’s like being in the position of – in half of the industry’s mind, you’re kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you’re a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
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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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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 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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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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 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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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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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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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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