Ben Folds famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Sorry #Couple #Sleep
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.
-- Ben Folds

#Love #Valentines Day #Way
The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
-- Ben Folds

#Nice #Thinking #People
Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
-- Ben Folds

#Silence #Notes #Silence Is
I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.
-- Ben Folds

#Mistake #Thinking
People learn at the rate they are going to learn.
-- Ben Folds

#People #Rate
I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
-- Ben Folds

#Block #Coffee #Nashville
I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.
-- Ben Folds

#Nice #Way #Fringe
And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.
-- Ben Folds

#Happy Love #Want #Reason
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
-- Ben Folds

#Reality #Waiting #Growing
Everybody knows it hurts to grow up...and we're still fighting it.
-- Ben Folds

#Hurt #Growing Up #Fighting
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

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

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

#Men #Thinking #Years
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.
-- Ben Folds

#Animal #Class #Piano
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.
-- Ben Folds

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

#Art #Inspired #Pops
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

#Girlfriend #Sleep #People
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

#People #Strange Person #Persons
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

#Writing #Email #Bars
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
-- Ben Folds

#Coast
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

#Cheating #Lying #Mean
When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.
-- Ben Folds

#Thinking #Share
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.
-- Ben Folds

#Kings #Couple #Years

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