Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
BEN FOLDSI’m not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there’s other people who like it too.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
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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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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’ve gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.
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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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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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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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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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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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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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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