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.
BEN FOLDSThe way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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 don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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I feel like a quote out of context.
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
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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 divorce myself from listeners who aren’t tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it’s all right, and then they go out.
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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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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 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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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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