Ben Folds Music Quotes & Sayings

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind. — Ben Folds

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

I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie. — Ben Folds

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them. — Ben Folds

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

I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They'd rather just have the martini. — Ben Folds

I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen. — Ian Axel

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it. — Ben Folds

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced. — Ben Folds

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

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

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired. — Ben Folds

I want to be like Ben Folds. Everyone loves his music, but you could be sitting next to him on a plane and never know it." "I would much rather people know my music than know my name. — Eric Hutchinson