It’s a tough thing to know that when you’re making your album, you’re going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
BEN FOLDSI’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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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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 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’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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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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Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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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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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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I’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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