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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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 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
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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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 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.
Ben Folds
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
Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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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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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 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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And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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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 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
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 you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
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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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Im really good at writing almost hits.
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