The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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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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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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 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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Everyone, when you’re a teenager and you’re growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it’s not.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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 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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In many ways, I’ve chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don’t like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.
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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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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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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’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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 feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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