I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
BEN FOLDSI do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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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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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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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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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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 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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