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Ben Folds Quotes & Sayings

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I want people to listen to my lyrics and be okay with themselves. The people who have it the roughest are homosexuals who come out of the closet. — Ben Folds

If you can't draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall — Ben Folds

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. — Ben Folds

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone ... than I ever have before. — Ben Folds

Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place. — Ben Folds

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. — Ben Folds

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not. — Ben Folds

White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony. — Ben Folds

The press is like any business. It's a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster. — Ben Folds

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up ... and we're still fighting it. — Ben Folds

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late. — Ben Folds

You have made me smile again; in fact I may be sore from it- it's been awhile. — Ben Folds

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them. — Ben Folds

I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie. — Ben Folds

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. — Ben Folds

I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen. — Ian Axel

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it. — Ben Folds

And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay. — Ben Folds

I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'. — Ben Folds

What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out? — Ben Folds

I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see. — Ben Folds

Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing. — 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. — Ben Folds

The cruelest lies are often told without a word
The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard — Ben Folds

If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past. — 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. — 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

And I twisted it wrong just to make it right
Had to leave myself behind — Ben Folds

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way. — Ben Folds

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. — Ben Folds

You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it. — Ben Folds

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday. — Jason Sudeikis

The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song. — 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

The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think. — Ben Folds

I feel like a quote out of context, — 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. — Ben Folds

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. — Ben Folds

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired. — Ben Folds

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano. — Ben Folds

Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere — 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

People learn at the rate they are going to learn. — Ben Folds

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. — Ben Folds

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you. — Ben Folds

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything. — Ben Folds

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. — Ben Folds

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. — Ben Folds

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it. — Ben Folds