The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
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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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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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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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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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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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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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I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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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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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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