Ben Folds Quotes:- Ben Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter. Folds was the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five from 1993 to 2000, and again in the early 2010s during their reunion. He has recorded a number of solo albums and performed live as a solo artist.
He has also collaborated with musicians such as William Shatner, Regina Spektor, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and yMusic, and has undertaken experimental songwriting projects with authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman. Since May 2017, he has been the first artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Inspirational Ben Folds Quotes
“Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.’
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“The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.’
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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.’
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“Everybody knows it hurts to grow up… and we’re still fighting it.’
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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 setlist at some point.’
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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.’
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“I’m not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there are other people who like it too.’
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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 press is like any business. It’s a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.’
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20+ Powerful Ben Folds Quotes
“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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“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.’
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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.’
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“With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don’t have the luxury of falling back on anything.’
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“Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.’
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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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“I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.’
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Top 10 Best Ben Folds Quotes
“The way I see it, there’s only one melody for any song.’
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“Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.’
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“A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.’
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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.’
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“Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.’
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“Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me – I’m not cringing.’
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“The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don’t want to be heard, then they have power over you.’
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“I’m really good at writing ‘almost hits’.’
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“Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there’s a lot of subtlety. That’s what I’m proud of.’
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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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“In many ways, I’ve chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don’t like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.’
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