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.
BEN FOLDSThe clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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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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I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can’t make myself finish something unless I am forced
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I’m sarcastic, it’s quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest.
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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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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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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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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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Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
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I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don’t know what to say sometimes. I’m professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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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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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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If I’m in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don’t need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.
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I do have that mindset – that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.
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I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.
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The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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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’m not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there’s other people who like it too.
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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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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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It’s like being in the position of – in half of the industry’s mind, you’re kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you’re a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
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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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I divorce myself from listeners who aren’t tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it’s all right, and then they go out.
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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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You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
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Everyone, when you’re a teenager and you’re growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it’s not.
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