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.
BEN FOLDSNotes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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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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I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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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I feel like a quote out of context.
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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 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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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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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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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 like being in the position of – in half of the industry’s mind, you’re kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you’re a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
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