November 2011
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“You brought the wind!” “You weren’t a fan of the wind?” “WHOOSHHHHHH, It’s the...”
– Ben Folds (via trac3ur)
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Hiroshima - Ben Folds Yet again,...
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“I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.”
– Ben Folds (via thatgirlmeggg)
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Effington | Ben Folds
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burnthepsycho:
[Ben] Folds attended the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music on a percussion scholarship, but dropped out with one credit to go before graduating. He devoted a lot of time to working on piano technique. “I spent maybe six months just running scales with a metronome like a freak,” Folds said. “I suppose that did something.”[6]
Folds tells audiences about a jury recital...
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Ben Folds quizzes on Sporcle. →
See if you can get all of the answers right. Some of them are actually kind of hard!
October 2011
19 posts
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alyssio:
“Songs of Love” - Ben Folds (EP...
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“I have to make sure I’m super proud of the stuff I make. I’m super proud of the...”
– Ben Folds
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NYMAG: What song do you wish had become a hit?
Ben Folds: That was happening a lot for a while in the era when we were releasing songs like 'Still Fighting It' and 'The Luckiest,' which has proven to have real longevity, but the label wasn’t even going to release it as a single because it didn’t have drums. And now I don’t walk through a day in public when someone doesn’t tell me they used it as their wedding song. I’m sure if there was a wedding top ten chart I’d have a hit. I also think 'Landed' could have gone a little further. Even 'You Don’t Know Me,' it did okay, but songs like that are more universal than the people running the business understand — they just don’t sound exactly like everything else.
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“Well, there were a few different moments. I remember being in my band just post...”
– Ben Folds on the first time he felt famous.
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NYMAG: Was there a moment you felt like the tide was turning against you?
Ben Folds: "Insecurity in your art and self are horrible demons. And when I quit the band and went solo, that was scary. I just had twins, after having been 'rock band dude,' and I worried that I was entering a way too grown-up phase and was going to be cast aside. Then [my first solo album, Rockin' the Suburbs,] was released on 9/11, and I can’t complain about what happened, but it crushed the record commercially. It got some good reviews, but it was the beginning of the era that continues now of people going real personal when they don’t like my records. I’ve kind of gotten to a place where I can say [about a writer who keeps slamming me], 'Oh that fuckin’ joke again, he’s still around?' And that it means you’re actually still around and relevant. But that was a pretty low time. Another time was, ironically, upon the release of my highest charting solo record, Way to Normal. I had a rough personal time, made a record that had a certain kind of humor in it, went with a producer who contributed to a distorted sound which made it sound a bit more bitter, and I felt bad — l felt it was being misunderstood. Magazines I’d respected growing up like Rolling Stone were jumping out and saying I was the angriest guy in show business and somebody better take this guy out now. And I just felt like, yuck. Despite that, the touring of the record was beautiful, it was great. But in my perception I felt like I put out a record that was picking fights."
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Vote for Ben! →
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Your Dogs | Ben Folds
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So who got the new album?!
It came out yesterday! :D
September 2011
86 posts
Hoda: You're on your third marriage, right?
Ben: No, my eighth.
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WatchThe Today Show interview!
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