I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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 want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
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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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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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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.
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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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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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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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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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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