I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I’m writing. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it’s okay. I don’t think it’s good for my liver, but I do love it. It’s a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.
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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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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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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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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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I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f – king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That’s really tempting.
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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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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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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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
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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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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
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