Ben Folds quotes

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before. (Ben Folds)
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see. View quote
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything. View quote
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Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them. View quote
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The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late. View quote
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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you. View quote
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Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not. View quote
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I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way. View quote
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Everybody knows it hurts to grow up...and we're still fighting it. View quote
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I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath. View quote
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There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired. (Ben Folds)
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. View quote
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The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying. (Ben Folds)
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano. View quote
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So much time and so little to say.. View quote
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Good morning, son In twenty years from now Maybe we'll both sit down and have a few beers And I can tell you 'bout today And how I picked you up and everything changed. View quote
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I refuse to rot like my contemporaries I want to explode in a karaoke supernova I don't wanna grow old Won't you let me, won't you let me explode? View quote
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