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
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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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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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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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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It’s a tough thing to know that when you’re making your album, you’re going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
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The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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Everything 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.
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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 love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don’t know what to say sometimes. I’m professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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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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