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.
BEN FOLDSI 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.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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 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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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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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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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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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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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The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
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