Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
BEN FOLDSThe music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn’t do it.
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I’ve gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.
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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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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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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If you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible – it wasn’t an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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There is still some art in pop music. But it can’t happen if you’re not inspired.
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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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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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The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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