The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
BEN FOLDSPeople 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.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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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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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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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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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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I feel like a quote out of context.
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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
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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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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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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’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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