I 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.
BEN FOLDSNotes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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I feel like a quote out of context.
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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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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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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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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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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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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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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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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