Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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 love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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 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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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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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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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 feel like a quote out of context.
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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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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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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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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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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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 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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I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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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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Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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I do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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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