Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
BEN FOLDSI always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can’t make myself finish something unless I am forced
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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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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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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Everyone, when you’re a teenager and you’re growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it’s not.
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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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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 do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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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