Ben Folds quotes

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before. (Ben Folds)

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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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

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Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

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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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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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I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up...and we're still fighting 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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired. (Ben Folds)

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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The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

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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 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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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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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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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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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 used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

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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. (Ben Folds)

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

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So much time and so little to say..

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Good morning, son In twenty years from now Maybe we'll both sit down and have a few beers And I can tell you 'bout today And how I picked you up and everything changed.

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I refuse to rot like my contemporaries I want to explode in a karaoke supernova I don't wanna grow old Won't you let me, won't you let me explode?

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Occupation: American Musician
Born: September 12, 1966
Quotes count: 44
Wikipedia: Ben Folds

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