The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
BEN FOLDSI drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don’t know what to say sometimes. I’m professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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If I’m in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don’t need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
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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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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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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 less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
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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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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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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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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I’m writing. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it’s okay. I don’t think it’s good for my liver, but I do love it. It’s a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.
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