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.
BEN FOLDSThe piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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I feel like a quote out of context.
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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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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
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Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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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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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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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I’m sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don’t do that, I’ve hamstrung the melody.
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I don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…
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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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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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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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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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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