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.
BEN FOLDSI love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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I do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
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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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I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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