The piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily.
BEN FOLDSI love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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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 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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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
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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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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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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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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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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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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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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Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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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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