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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.

Ben Folds

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
BEN FOLDS

Proud Simplicity Writing
Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Notes Silence
I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
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Gay Looks Men
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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Song Writing Years
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Growing Reality Waiting
Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
BEN FOLDS

Kids Rocks Roll
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Men Thinking Years
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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Fighting Growing Hurt Up
What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
BEN FOLDS

Kings Out Stupid Work
The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
BEN FOLDS

Heard Lying Often Spoke
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.
BEN FOLDS

Experience Share Something Thinking
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 FOLDS

Gigs Pain White
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.
BEN FOLDS

Numbers Pressure Real
If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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Crowd Draws Wall
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
BEN FOLDS

Feels Want Withholding
The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
BEN FOLDS

Group Intelligent Monster

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.

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