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.
BEN FOLDSYou never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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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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It’s a tough thing to know that when you’re making your album, you’re going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
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I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
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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 nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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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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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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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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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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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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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