Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
BEN FOLDSIn 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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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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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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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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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People aren’t going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They’d rather just have the martini.
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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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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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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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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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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