The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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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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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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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 look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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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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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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