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 FOLDSI love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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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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I 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
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I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.
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I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
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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 want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
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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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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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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