Rob Bergeron

“You always notice the holidays more when you feel the most alone.”
― Ben Folds, A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

“But don’t take my advice; listen to Neil Young. He said it best: “There’s a lot to learn for wasting time.”
― Ben Folds, A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

“I didn’t love every group I encountered. In fact, I’ll be quite happy to never see gun-and-coin dude again. But I learned to stand in other people’s shoes, as much as a child can. It’s hard to view certain people as anything but monsters, yet there’s value in giving it the old college try. By dignifying even the most despicable character as a human being, by offering them what empathy we can manage, we also hold them accountable for their choices.”
― Ben Folds, A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

“People often ask me if it’s scary to make up a song onstage, dictating parts, on the fly, to a full orchestra. Well, no. It doesn’t occur to me to worry about that. I have a jazz musician’s view of mistakes. If you play a wrong note, you can always make the same mistake again on purpose and make it sound right. Insistence on the mistake can be quite musical. Indeed, “once is a mistake, twice is jazz,” a quote often attributed to Miles Davis.”
― Ben Folds, A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons