My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
BEN FOLDSRock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don’t want heard, then they have power over you.
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White people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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 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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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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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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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The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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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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