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

~Ben Folds

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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.

~Ben Folds

Topics: Being Being Nice Changed Easier Iota Just Much Music Nice Older People Still Than 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.

~Ben Folds

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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.

~Ben Folds

Topics: Away Belong Couple Day Days Door His Know Lived Man Next Next Door Nineties Old Old Man One Day Passed She Sleep Sorry Stayed Strange Strange Way Tell Way Who Wife You

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Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

~Ben Folds

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Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.

~Ben Folds

Topics: After Carefully Craft Enough Feel Fifteen Find Having Like Maybe Me Songs Still Works Written Wrong Years I Feel I Feel Like

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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.

~Ben Folds

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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.

~Ben Folds

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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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 12th, 1966

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