Ben Folds
Musician
1966-09-12
Ben Folds is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer known as the frontman of Ben Folds Five and for his solo work. His music blends piano-driven pop and alternative rock with autobiographical lyrics.
Books by Ben Folds
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A Dream About Lightning Bugs
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Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
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Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
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Quotes by Ben Folds
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Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
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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.
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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.
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