I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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 parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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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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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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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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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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 romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
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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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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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