I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
BEN FOLDSNotes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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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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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I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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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 used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
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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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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I feel like a quote out of context.
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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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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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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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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 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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