I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
BEN FOLDSI drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.
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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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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 do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don’t ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.
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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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