Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
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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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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 want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
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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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To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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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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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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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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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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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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 start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.
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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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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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I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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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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White people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.
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If I’m in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don’t need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.
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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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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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