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.
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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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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I feel like a quote out of context.
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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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’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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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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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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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 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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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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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