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.
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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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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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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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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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I’m sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don’t do that, I’ve hamstrung the melody.
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To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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It’s like being in the position of – in half of the industry’s mind, you’re kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you’re a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
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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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