If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
BEN FOLDSI’m not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there’s other people who like it too.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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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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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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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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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 love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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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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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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