I don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…
BEN FOLDSNext 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.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
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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.
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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 feel like a quote out of context.
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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’m older than I was, and I’m still washed-up, and I haven’t changed my music one iota. It’s just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
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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’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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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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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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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can’t make myself finish something unless I am forced
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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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People aren’t going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They’d rather just have the martini.
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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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’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 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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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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.
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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.
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