There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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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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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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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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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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 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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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 way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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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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In many ways, I’ve chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don’t like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.
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It’s like being in the position of – in half of the industry’s mind, you’re kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you’re a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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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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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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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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