Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.
BEN FOLDSMy parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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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 clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up…and we’re still fighting it.
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What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
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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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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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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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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.
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If you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall
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I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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