But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
BEN FOLDSOff the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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’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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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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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 love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
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I don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…
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