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.
BEN FOLDSAnd all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting 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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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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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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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 way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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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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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If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I’m sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don’t do that, I’ve hamstrung the melody.
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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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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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I divorce myself from listeners who aren’t tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it’s all right, and then they go out.
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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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If I’m in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don’t need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.
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