Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
BEN FOLDSPeople learn at the rate they are going to learn.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
BEN FOLDSThe way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
BEN FOLDSA lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
BEN FOLDSBecause I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
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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.
BEN FOLDSTo 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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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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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.
BEN FOLDSYou 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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
BEN FOLDSNow that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
BEN FOLDSThe cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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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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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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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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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.
BEN FOLDSI 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 not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there’s other people who like it too.
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