The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
BEN FOLDSIf you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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’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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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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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.
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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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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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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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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 used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
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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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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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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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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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