If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
BEN FOLDSIf you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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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I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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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 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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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 cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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