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.
BEN FOLDSRock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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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 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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I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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I divorce myself from listeners who aren’t tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it’s all right, and then they go out.
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I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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