And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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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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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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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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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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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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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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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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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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
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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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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 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.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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