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 FOLDSEverybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
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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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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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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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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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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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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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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Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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