Quotes by Ben Folds

Ben Folds

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.

Men

Thinking

Years

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

Proud

Simplicity

Writing

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.

Church

Musician

Writing

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.

Adelaide

America

Home

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.

Growing Up

Teenager

Tvs

Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I’m sarcastic, it’s quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest. To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it’s asking a lot of someone who’s used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.

Sarcastic

Singing

Writing

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.

Couple

Kings

Years

I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

Cards

Scotch

Writing

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

Feels

Want

Withholding

I feel like a quote out of context.

Feels

Folds

Of Context

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Alcohol

America

Animal

Art

Average

Beats

Cards

Church

Class

Closets

Confession

Couple

Done

Earth

Easier

Energy

Eye

Fantasy

Feels

Folds

Fringe

Gay

Gigs

Girlfriend

Gravity

Groups

Growing

Growing Up

Heard

Home

Inspired

Intelligent

Kings

Letting Go

Lists

Looks

Love

Lying

Men

Might

Mind

Monsters

Musician

Needs

Nice

Notes

Numbers

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Quotes by Ben Folds

Ben Folds

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they’ve seen everything.

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

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.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that’s when I get to go home.

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.

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.

I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

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

I feel like a quote out of context.

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