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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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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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There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
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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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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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Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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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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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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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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 nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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'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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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 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.
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Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
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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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