The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
BEN FOLDSEverybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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People aren’t going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They’d rather just have the martini.
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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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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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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When someone really goes to tell you something about what they’re thinking, they’re going to wear that experience with them. That’s what you have to share.
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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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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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 you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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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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Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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