A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
BEN FOLDSYou can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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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 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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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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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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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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I do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
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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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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 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 feel like a quote out of context.
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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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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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