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

Ben Folds

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Ben Folds
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 12
Composer
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Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Benjamin Scott Folds
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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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I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don't know what to say sometimes. I'm professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.
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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 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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What stupid f - king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn't work out?
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I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting.
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The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.
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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.
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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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And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.
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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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If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
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