The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
BEN FOLDSI 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.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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I feel like a quote out of context.
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
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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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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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I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f – king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That’s really tempting.
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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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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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The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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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’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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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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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Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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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 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.
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