Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
BEN FOLDSWhite people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.
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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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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 divorce myself from listeners who aren’t tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it’s all right, and then they go out.
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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 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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I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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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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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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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White people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.
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