You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
BEN FOLDSIf you’re afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.
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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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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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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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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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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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And all I really want to say is you’re the reason I want to stay.
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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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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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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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I feel like a quote out of context.
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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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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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People aren’t going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They’d rather just have the martini.
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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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Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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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 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 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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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.
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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 love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
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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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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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