Ben Folds quotes
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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 love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.”
-- Ben FoldsSource : Song: The Luckiest, Album: Rockin' The Suburbs, 2001
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“The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.”
-- Ben FoldsSource : Source: www.billboard.com
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“Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.”
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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.”
-- Ben FoldsSource : Source: www.billboard.com
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“People learn at the rate they are going to learn.”
-- Ben FoldsSource : Source: www.billboard.com
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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... 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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“I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.”
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“And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.”
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“The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.”
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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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“I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.”
-- Ben FoldsSource : Song: Best Imitation of Myself, Album: Ben Folds Five
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“A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.”
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“The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. 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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“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.”
-- Ben FoldsSource : Source: www.billboard.com
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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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“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.”
-- Ben FoldsSource : Source: www.billboard.com
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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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“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.”
-- Ben FoldsSource : Source: www.billboard.com
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“Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere”
-- Ben FoldsSource : Song: Brick
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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.”
-- Ben FoldsSource : Source: www.billboard.com
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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.”
-- Ben FoldsSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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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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