I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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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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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My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that’s the right song to not fight the lyric.
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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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I’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.
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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don’t want heard, then they have power over you.
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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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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 think a lot of good directors listen to music while they’re working. The songs just don’t become a part of the film. They’re replaced.
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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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