The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
BEN FOLDSEverything I write is personal, really. Even when I’m sarcastic, it’s quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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I feel like a quote out of context.
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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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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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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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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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
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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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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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I 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.
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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