You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
BEN FOLDSI 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.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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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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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.
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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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’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 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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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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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People aren’t going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They’d rather just have the martini.
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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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I feel like a quote out of context.
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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