Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
BEN FOLDSBeing capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I’m writing. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it’s okay. I don’t think it’s good for my liver, but I do love it. It’s a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.
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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 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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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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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I’m older than I was, and I’m still washed-up, and I haven’t changed my music one iota. It’s just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
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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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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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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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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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I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f – king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That’s really tempting.
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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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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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