The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
BEN FOLDSNow that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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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 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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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 love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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 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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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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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If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I’m sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don’t do that, I’ve hamstrung the melody.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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I feel like a quote out of context.
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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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