You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
BEN FOLDSEven though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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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 want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
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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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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The piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily.
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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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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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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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