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Ben Folds Inspirational Quotes (37)

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Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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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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 cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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'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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.
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Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
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But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
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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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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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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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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 clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 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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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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