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.
BEN FOLDSThe nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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 love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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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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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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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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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Everyone, 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.
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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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Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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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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You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
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