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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.
Ben Folds
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Ben Folds
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 12
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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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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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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 way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
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And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.
Ben Folds
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 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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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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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
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
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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I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don't know what to say sometimes. I'm professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
Ben Folds
Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.
Ben Folds
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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What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?
Ben Folds
I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.
Ben Folds
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've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.
Ben Folds
The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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