Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
BEN FOLDSI’ve gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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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 love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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 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’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I’m writing. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it’s okay. I don’t think it’s good for my liver, but I do love it. It’s a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.
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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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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 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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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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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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