I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
BEN FOLDSMy job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that’s the right song to not fight the lyric.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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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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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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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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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 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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I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don’t know what to say sometimes. I’m professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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When someone really goes to tell you something about what they’re thinking, they’re going to wear that experience with them. That’s what you have to share.
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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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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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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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 can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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