Quote

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

Ben Folds

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ben Folds
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 12
Composer
Lyricist
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Benjamin Scott Folds
Music
Make
Insert
Notes
Silence
Learn

More quotes by Ben Folds

Image
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.
Ben Folds
Image
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.
Ben Folds
Image
The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
Ben Folds
Image
The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
Ben Folds
Image
You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.
Ben Folds
Image
Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.
Ben Folds
Image
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
Ben Folds
Image
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.
Ben Folds
Image
The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.
Ben Folds
Image
My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.
Ben Folds
Image
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 Folds
Image
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
Ben Folds
Image
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
Ben Folds
Image
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.
Ben Folds
Image
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.
Ben Folds
Image
Im really good at writing almost hits.
Ben Folds
Image
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 Folds
Image
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.
Ben Folds
Image
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.
Ben Folds
Image
I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.
Ben Folds