But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
BEN FOLDSEveryone, when you’re a teenager and you’re growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it’s not.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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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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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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I divorce myself from listeners who aren’t tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it’s all right, and then they go out.
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I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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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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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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I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f – king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That’s really tempting.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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