A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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 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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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 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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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.
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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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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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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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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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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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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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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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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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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I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don’t know what to say sometimes. I’m professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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I’m older than I was, and I’m still washed-up, and I haven’t changed my music one iota. It’s just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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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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