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.
BEN FOLDSI 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.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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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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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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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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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You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
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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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The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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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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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 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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The piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily.
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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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To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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 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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I’m not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there’s other people who like it too.
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I feel like a quote out of context.
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