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.
BEN FOLDSSome people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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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Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I’m sarcastic, it’s quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest.
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The 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s a tough thing to know that when you’re making your album, you’re going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
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