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

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Ben Folds
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 12
Composer
Lyricist
Musician
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Benjamin Scott Folds
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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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My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do 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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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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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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If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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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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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.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
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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'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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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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The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?
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Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
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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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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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