What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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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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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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.
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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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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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I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I’m sarcastic, it’s quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest.
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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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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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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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 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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