Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
BEN FOLDSThe nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don’t want heard, then they have power over you.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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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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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Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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White people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.
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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 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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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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