I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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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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 look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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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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When someone really goes to tell you something about what they’re thinking, they’re going to wear that experience with them. That’s what you have to share.
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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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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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’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 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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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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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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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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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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You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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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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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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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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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
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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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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