Ben Folds Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.”

“Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.”

“Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.”

“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.”

“I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.”

“The press is like any business. It's a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.”

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

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

“My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that.”

“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.”