Ben Folds Quotes

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

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• Everybody knows it hurts to grow up… and we’re still fighting it.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.

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• 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.

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• Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.

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• The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.

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

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Ben Folds (10)

Birth:	12th September, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician

About

Benjamin Scott Ben Folds is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. From 1995-2000, Folds was the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. After the group temporarily disbanded, Folds performed as a solo artist and has toured all over the world. The group reunited in 2011. He has also collaborated with musicians such as William Shatner, Regina Spektor and Weird Al Yankovic and undertaken experimental songwriting projects with authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman. Folds has recently recorded a video song with Nick Hornby and Pomplamoose. As well, English YouTuber Charlie McDonnell was commissioned to create the music video for Folds' song Saskia Hamilton, which was uploaded on October 1, 2010. Folds was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2011.

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