Ben Folds Quotes

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

Old, Getting, Growing

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

Proud, Write, Simply

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

Great, Play, Both

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

Home, Live, America

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

Fighting, Hurts, Everybody

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

Good, Art, Someone

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

Nice, Aware, Fringe

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

Music, Person, Strange

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

Good, Writing, Almost

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

Music, Fight, Job

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

Alone, Someone, Feeling

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

Rock, Place, Kid

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

Nature, Power, Someone

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

Business, Group, Ends

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

Find, Sick, Reason

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

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

Music, Art, Happen

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

Good, Great, Why

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

Put, Unique, Whether

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.
Ben Folds

Tell, Almost, Material

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

Life, Enough, Everyone

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.
Ben Folds

Pain, End, Saying

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.
Ben Folds

Music, Nice, Older

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.
Ben Folds

Off, Possible, Almost

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Nationality: American

Born: September 12, 1966

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