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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I feel like a quote out of context.
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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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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
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Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
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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, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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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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I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
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When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.
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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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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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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. To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it's asking a lot of someone who's used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.
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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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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 could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting.
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Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
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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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People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
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I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. 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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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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White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.
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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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.
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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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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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Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see if it works. The novel freaks me out because, what if you get into the eighth chapter and think, 'Let's go to the top and see if this works again? It's going to take me three weeks.' I'm in awe of that.
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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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