There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
BEN FOLDSI 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.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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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 don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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