127 Quotes by Ben Folds

What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?

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.

I’m romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.

You can’t really control how people hear stuff. It’s hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

White people don’t sing together very often, and when they do, it’s about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.

Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.

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.

I accept that one day, my music will be gone forever. So will the Sistine Chapel, Bruce Lee movies, and all the silly arts and crafts my aunt ever bought. Gone with the wind. Making songs is something I do here and now. Because light captured is just a moment, a flicker.