Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
BEN FOLDSIf I’m in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don’t need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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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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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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Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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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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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’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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 do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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