Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
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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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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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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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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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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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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…
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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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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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The piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily.
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