Folds Quotes

• Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Light, Giving

  Andrea Gray Stillman, Andrea Gray, Ansel Adams, American Place (Gallery), University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography (1982). “Ansel Adams: an American Place, 1936”, Center for Creative Photography

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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

  Pain, White, Gigs

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ben Folds

  Reality, Waiting, Growing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ben Folds

  Found Someone, Feelings, Found

  Song: Brick

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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

  Nice, People, Easier

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.

  Ben Folds

  Kids, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Ben Folds

  Real, Numbers, Pressure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Ben Folds

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ben Folds

  Hurt, Growing Up, Fighting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Writing, Church, Musician

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Sorry, Couple, Sleep

  Song: The Luckiest

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• I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.

  Ben Folds

  Love, Valentines Day, Way

  Song: The Luckiest, Album: Rockin' The Suburbs, 2001

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• And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Night, Poetry

  "The Day Is Done" st. 11 (1844)

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Years

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• Im really good at writing almost hits.

  Ben Folds

  Writing

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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

  Song, Sick, Lists

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Song: Best Imitation of Myself, Album: Ben Folds Five

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• The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

  Ben Folds

  Honesty, Over You, Want

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Song, Jobs, Fighting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ben Folds

  Home, America, Adelaide

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Intelligent, Monsters, Groups

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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.

  Ben Folds

  Unique, Albums, Beats

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like a quote out of context.

  Ben Folds

  Feels, Of Context

  Song: Best Imitation of Myself, Album: Ben Folds Five

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• We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Past, Optimism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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