Ben Folds Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see if it works. The novel freaks me out because, what if you get into the eighth chapter and think, 'Let's go to the top and see if this works again? It's going to take me three weeks.' I'm in awe of that.

  Ben Folds

  Song, Couple, Writing

• 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.

  Ben Folds

  Song, White, People

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

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

  Ben Folds

  Song, Way, Gravity

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

• If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

  Ben Folds

  Song, Fantasy, Confession

  Source: www.billboard.com

• 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

  Song, Thinking, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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