Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
BEN FOLDSI 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.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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I feel like a quote out of context.
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I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I’m writing. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it’s okay. I don’t think it’s good for my liver, but I do love it. It’s a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.
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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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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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When someone really goes to tell you something about what they’re thinking, they’re going to wear that experience with them. That’s what you have to share.
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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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I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet.
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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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