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.
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 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 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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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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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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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 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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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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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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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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