If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
BEN FOLDSNotes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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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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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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I’m older than I was, and I’m still washed-up, and I haven’t changed my music one iota. It’s just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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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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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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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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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 way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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 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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