The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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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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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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 love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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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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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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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that’s the right song to not fight the lyric.
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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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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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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In many ways, I’ve chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don’t like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.
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I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can’t make myself finish something unless I am forced
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The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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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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