People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
BEN FOLDSA lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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I feel like a quote out of context.
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Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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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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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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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My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that’s the right song to not fight the lyric.
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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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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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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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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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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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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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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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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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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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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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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