27 Ben Folds Quotes

Ben Folds quotes

1. Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.

2. Would you look at me I'm crazy But I get the job done Yeah, I'm crazy but I get the job done.

3. Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before.

4. You have made me smile again In fact, I might be sore from it. It's been a while I know we've been together many times before I'll see you on the other side.

5. I don't get Many things right the first time In fact, I am told that a lot Now I know all the wrong turns And stumbles and falls Brought me here.

6. 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.

7. You nodded off in my arms watching tv I won't move you an inch Even though my arm's asleep.

8. There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you While the world is watching All you need is the thing you forgotten And that's to learn to live with what you are.

9. When you don't care then You've got nothing to loose And I won't hesitate Because every moment life is slipping away It's okay.

10. Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything.

11. Glad I'm not an astronaut...I'd be fucking dead.

12. This one's in the key of C...I won't fuck this up.

13. Rockin' out...with my cock out...there was much ado about nothing...it was only...my nutsack...

14. It's not safe, but yeah, I can flip a piano over. You take it on this side where there's not really as much weight.

15. I only fuck up that bad about once every two months ... which is a pretty high fuck-up ratio for a professional musician, when you think about it.

1. Im really good at writing almost hits.

2. I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.

3. I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They'd rather just have the martini.

4. People learn at the rate they are going to learn.

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

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