The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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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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Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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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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I 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.
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I start songs all the time. If I weren’t so lazy, I would finish them. It’s like when I have a deadline I have to.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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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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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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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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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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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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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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