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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

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Ben Folds
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 12
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Winston-Salem
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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.
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You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.
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There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
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The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
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I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.
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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.
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When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.
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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.
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And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.
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What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?
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I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.
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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
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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I divorce myself from listeners who aren't tolerant of humor. I did notice universally that, especially when it comes to weight, people look in the mirror and get the angle just right, tell themselves it's all right, and then they go out.
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Rock and roll is - and should be - a kid's place.
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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.
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The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
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If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is I just want to know how she feels about it.
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I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.
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