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 More Quotes by Ben Folds More Quotes From Ben Folds I feel like a quote out of context. Ben Folds of-context folds feels Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere Ben Folds coast 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 musician church writing Im really good at writing almost hits. Ben Folds folds writing If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past. Ben Folds redneck might past I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can't make myself finish something unless I am forced Ben Folds writing song years With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see if it works. The novel freaks me out because, what if you get into the eighth chapter and think, 'Let's go to the top and see if this works again? It's going to take me three weeks.' I'm in awe of that. Ben Folds couple writing song 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. Ben Folds couple sorry sleep You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not. Ben Folds beats albums unique Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place. Ben Folds rock-and-roll rocks kids The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster. Ben Folds groups intelligent monsters 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 strange-person persons people Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano. Ben Folds piano play Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. Ben Folds simplicity proud writing 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. Ben Folds real pressure numbers 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 gigs pain white I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not. Ben Folds eye earth people 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 records self sound 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 fighting song jobs What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out? Ben Folds work-out stupid kings
