Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
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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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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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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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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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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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I’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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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 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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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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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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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I’ve gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.
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