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.
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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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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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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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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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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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’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 a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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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The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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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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